[ale] Re: Ale Digest, Vol 7, Issue 10

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Grady Harris wrote:

> To tell the truth, I've only done enough LaTeX by hand to figure out what the
> references to previous means meant, & to be able to discuss it with a
> mathematician buddy who is helping me with a transcription where I'm using
> MathML, which he hadn't heard of.
> 
> For PDFs, I've been using XSL-FO. The literature & implementations seem kind of
> thin for a spec that's been a full recommendation some three years (though I
> will probably figure that one out soon), but the mailing lists are active,
> which is one of the reasons I coveted a gmail account--thank you, Sergio.
> 
> PDFs are the big thing where I work, in a medical library--so far, OpenOffice
> has been about the only way to produce them from original work that I can
> persuade somebody else to use (co-workers & patrons have an entirely reasonable
> aversion to visible mark-up). Any suggestions for other Free/Open Source ways to
> generate PDFs that do not involve a text editor?

Don't you mean unreasonable? ;-)

Check out Scribus. It's more in the DTP space, but it does have lots of 
pdf support

later,
chris