This is all good information, I'll link to some of these things on our linux wiki at http://linuxwiki.ciscovision.org we are running an intro to Linux command-line admin course at the academy at the moment and all the resources are free for the taking although the certificate costs. http://www.cucat.org, select student resources, then linux intro. regards, Kerry. On 4/03/2012 2:20 PM, Jason White wrote: > Michael Whapples<speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote: >> The wikibook on LaTeX is quite good, I tend to use that as a reference book, >> although it does have sections which would be good for beginners as well. >> >> I have to agree with Liz though, you may come across times where the >> expected format means using LaTeX is not possible (eg. I am studying with >> the Open University and I must submit my project report as a word document >> or RTF). > > You can still write it in LaTeX and convert it. Tex4ht is the best package for > this. It can generate HTML, XHTML or ODF. Unoconv (which uses LibreOffice) can > take this and convert it to RTF or even MS-Word format. > > Even if you need a word processor format in the end, this doesn't mean you > have to use a word processor to create it. > > I think there are conversions from Docbook as well, but I haven't investigated > those. Almost everyone with whom I have ever exchanged documents has gladly > accepted either PDF or HTML. > > There are other interesting formats worth mentioning also, such as Emacs > Org-mode, Mardown, RestructuredText and so on, which again are supported by > ocnversion tools. > > The only situation in which I would use a word processor is one in which I had > a document with formatting that needed to be preserved, which I was > collaboratively editing with a word processor user. > > At that point, LibreOffice would probably be a necessity, despite the bad > editing environment compared with Emacs or Vim. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
