Star Text Formatting with OpenOffice.org Writer
Linked by Christian Paratschek on Fri 10th Sep 2004 05:18 UTC
Features, Office 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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@ Odegard
by zen on Fri 10th Sep 2004 13:41 UTC

Since there seems to be some mention of laTex in this thread as well I thought I might take advantage to ask a few questions.

I've been planning on writing all my essays in similar way nano + LaTex, if for no other reason then being able to read them several years from now on the computer (e.g. no vendor lock in!).

Couple of questions for you:
1) I love nano, but disabling the word wrapping never seems to work (I think there is a compile and run-time option). How have you gotten around this? Do you hit enter at the end of each line or are you using latex to determine the end of a paragraph?

2) What reference have you used for Latex? I've looked at local bookstores and there doesn't seem to be anything brief and useful.

3) I've been planning to have all my essays bound together as a portfolio. Is it easy and reliable to convert to pdf to take directly to a printer?

Thanks!