Re: SUGGEST ANOTHER IDEA

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 11:22:24 EDT

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    On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Nic Ferrier wrote:

    > Bernie Dolan <dolan@jeol.com> writes:
    >
    > > > There isnīt any wordprocessor that has got this option. When you have
    > > > to print a document to bind a book, you have to:
    > > > 1.- Put option "apaisado" (I donīt know how it is said in english the
    > > > option to turn the page)
    > > > 2.- Chouse two columns.
    > > > 3.- Order manually the pages in several notebooks that after they are
    > > > goint to be doubled and sewed: for example, if you decided notebooks
    > > > made of 4 pages, the order will be: page 16 and page 1 in the first
    > > > face of the first page, in the second face will be printed the 2 and
    > > > the 15; in the second page will be printed the 14 and the 3 and in the
    > > > second face the 4 and the 13....
    > > >
    > > > 4.- And finally, print.
    > > >
    > > Oh Contrair
    > >
    > > The program Framemaker is a word processor (and much more) that can do
    > > all the required formattng to print a book, and such things as make
    > > outlines, TOC's, and such from the doccument.
    > >
    > > The ONLY problem is it costs far too much.
    >
    > I think the point is that this is not the best way to produce a book,
    > though it might be the one that is most suited to the least skilled.
    >
    > The free software community provides many book production tools, TeX
    > for example, can easily handle the production of books.
    >
    > AbiWord is going down the right road in being interoperable with
    > things like TeX, it already can output to XHTML.
    >

    And LaTeX which is even closer to TeX :-). I suspect though that the Latex
    exporter no longer works very well. It hasn't been touched in a long time
    :-(

    Cheers

    Martin

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