On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 10:40 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/07/2013 05:34 AM, Tethys wrote: > > TeX under Fedora is frankly a joke these days :-( I don't know if > > there's currently a maintainer. Certainly no one's responding to > > critical bug reports. ConTeXt is literally unusable out of the box (as > > in, it doesn't run at all), which make typesetting my books > > problematic. I'm currently editing them on my box, and then > > typesetting them on my girlfriend's box, which is running an older > > version of Fedora, which does at least have a working texexec. > > There are other FOSS options for this, you know. If you don't mind > migrating from a markup language to a GUI, you might consider Scribus. > I've had good luck with it on small projects, and I know that there are > professionals out there using it for magazines and books. That might work for some projects, but generally speaking people using TeX/LaTeX are concerned about finer control of typesetting, especially when it comes to mathematical material. TeX/LaTeX is the gold standard for this. To paraphrase Brian Kernighan, the trouble with WYSIWYG is that it usually means What You See Is *All* You Get. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
