[TriLUG] Desktop Publishing.

[John Beimler]

quotation from J Bryan Kelly <bryankelly at ktti.com> [on 020103 18:55]::

> 
> Gang,
> 
>  I have been looking around the net and have come to the conclusion that 
> there really is not much activity in the Linux Community in the area of 
> desktop publishing. I am not referring to work processors, but software 
> similar to PageMaker, QuarkXpress, InDesign, ect.  The closes thing I can 
> find is a commercial program, ArtStream, but it seems to be focused on 
> graphics and illustration. 
> 

ok, I know not a lot of people are going to agree, but I really like TeX 
for layout for the things I do.  LyX provides a decent interface also.  
Part of Unix history and its first commercial use was for the text 
processing of Patent Applications at Bell Labs 
(http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/firstport.html) 
and TeX has been around quite a while too one of the original computer 
typesetting apps.  And if you read technical journals (good for insomnia 
:) you'll notice that many of them are typeset in TeX.

anyhow, enough rambling..

Peace.

john