On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Russ Harrison wrote:
> On 07-Apr-98 kLicK wrote:
> >Are there any GOOD wordprocessing programs that are free?
>
>
> If WYSIWYG isn't a requirement for you (and even if you think it is you
> should still look into this) I would recommend LaTeX. Sure it isn't the
> newest thing out there, but it produces much better output, IMHO, than
> any WYSIWYG word processor out there, and on top of that it is free :)
> Another up side is no proprietary file formats, and it is a lot more
> difficult to mess up plain text than a file from something like Word.
> There is a program out there called LyX that puts what the authors call
> a "What you see is what you mean" frontend to LaTeX, but I haven't
> used it so I can't comment.
>
Agreed. And of course you can see the output as it will be printed by using
xdvi in X.
Amthony
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