Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. I merely wanted to show that OpenOffice.org in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more.
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I haven't worked with the Openoffice styles much but I've recently been messing around with LaTeX. It's pretty cool but quite a change from a WYSIWIG editor. I guess I just like seeing the results of my editing right away.
Does anyone know how OO.o compares to LaTeX for formatting basic text documents? It seems like most profs still use LaTeX for their coursepacks and papers here at the uni instead of a WYSIWYG editor.
The other reason I don't like OO.o so much is because of it's formula editor sometimes screws up spacing between subscripts and normal letters.
Great article by the way. OSNews needs more articles that inform instead of throwing out an opinion (I know I'm guilty of contributing to this too).
I haven't worked with the Openoffice styles much but I've recently been messing around with LaTeX. It's pretty cool but quite a change from a WYSIWIG editor. I guess I just like seeing the results of my editing right away.

Does anyone know how OO.o compares to LaTeX for formatting basic text documents? It seems like most profs still use LaTeX for their coursepacks and papers here at the uni instead of a WYSIWYG editor.
The other reason I don't like OO.o so much is because of it's formula editor sometimes screws up spacing between subscripts and normal letters.
Great article by the way. OSNews needs more articles that inform instead of throwing out an opinion (I know I'm guilty of contributing to this too).