On 2019-11-02 15:54, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello,
>
>> You can't go wrong with LibreOffice. I've written thousands of pages over
>> the years with it. It may be too "heavy" for some, but for me, if I'm doing
>> something too complex for vi or mousepad, I just fire up LibreOffice.
> to me there is no such thing that is too complex for the unix documentation
> toolchain that you can achieve with libreoffice. i feel the other way
> around: libreoffice is always a bad choice:
>
> * when i need a rich good looking document in which you can
> easily add graphical material of very different nature (music cheets,
> chemical or math formula, gantt graph, ...), then
>
> [your editor of choice] + pandoc + git + latex + tikz + gnuplot + graphviz + m4
>
> is really the best thing i found
>
> * if you need interactivity and animation (which isn't my case): the web is there
> (i personally use pandoc + pug + livescript (to be replaced by elm) +
> stylus)
>
> the only one case where libreoffice is the good choice is if you mind
> the learning curve but writting a book is a long process, pay the bill
> at first to be more peaceful later seems to be a good deal to me.
>
> regards.
> marc
>
Fair enough, I have no issue with using the various unix tools for
making documents, but for my use case, LibreOffice has treated me well.
I primarily use it for simple things like putting together invoices,
writing articles, rendering documents to PDF or postscript, and reading
.docx files people send me. I'm sure there's a superior way to do all
this, but I'm lazy and I like some of the more mundane features of
LibreOffice like being able to render a document to postscript and then
print to the printer I have specified in my /etc/printcap file as well
as .docx format support for when I have to collaborate with average
people. I've thought about learning latex and mandoc and all the fancy
tools, but I've just never gotten around to it.
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