On Wednesday 28 August 2002 12:28 am, C. Bottelier wrote: | At 11:33 AM 8/27/02, Vadim Plessky wrote: | >| | >| And we should author the documents in a pure presentation format like | >| PDF then. Why bother with markup if you don't care about the | >| structure? | > | >I think if we take again Word Processor (WP) paradigma, and add DTP | >(Desktop Publishing System), than we will recognize that DTP has better | >handling of document's structure than traditional WP. | | How about TeX, LaTeX, and LOUT documents? | I am not familiar with TeX, LaTeX, and haven't heard about LOUT at all. If you want *light* solution, which will be able to keep document structure, export PDF and provide WYSIWYG at the same moment - try KWord (http://www.koffice.org). KWord 1.2 (RC1 released 2 weeks ago, final release will follow in a week) has all this and even more :-) And BTW it can export XHTML1-Strict with CSS2 formatting (out from internal XML_based KWord format). | Christian. | | Microsoft products are susceptible to a large variety of viruses, worms, | and other fauna. This flaim is really not necessary here. I was speaking *document structure & presentation format * MS Word's .doc is widely used, and while I don't like it at all, leading Open-Source projects offer (at least) import functionality for Word documents. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/Received on Wednesday, 28 August 2002 04:42:23 GMT
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