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Re: Text Proccessing



On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 milesteg@surfree.net.il wrote:

> Hello everybody.
> 
> I've been exploring Linux in depth for a while now, and the results have
> (offcourse! :P) been satisfactory. The next thingie on my todo list is
> telling me to set up a word-proccessing system + printing on the box.
> Now, I suppose I could go out and start looking around on freshmeat for
> editors and try everything and reinvent the wheel about deciding what's
> better .. but I think I'm getting a bit lazy .. or is it just late? :P
> Now, there are numerous words I heard over the time .. such as LaTeX and
> TeTeX and all that bunch .. and others ..
> 
> Could you people help me around and summarize the advantages and
> disadvantages of each approach, i.e StarOffice vs. LaTeX, so that I
> wouldn't have to discover it slowly and painfully by myself (slowly
> because I'm a modem user and downloading takes time :P).
> Please keep HEBREW in mind, and that I'm an ex-Windows user who's trying
> to recover, so I'm used to Word, and the such.
> 
> Thank you!

  Presonally, I use LyX for all my text processing needs. LyX is a graphical 
frontend for LaTeX. That means that you get all the power of LaTeX, with a
nice GUI. LyX (and underlying LaTeX) support Hebrew well, however make sure
that your LaTeX is hebrew-enabled.

  Good Luck!

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