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

[Grady Harris]

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?

Grady Harris

Quoting ale-request at ale.org:
> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:44:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Q: PDFing hyperlinks
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>
> Grady -
>
> Thanks. Looks promising. I'll file a battle report. Since I have
> StarOffice in Linux and OO in M$Win, I'll see where/if it works.
>
> I have created bookmarked, indexed, hyperlinked PDFs using a set of
> [someone else's] LaTeX macros and Adobe's Distiller - there, run in SunOS.
> I must say it worked and the results were very good, but hand-built LaTeX
> is a *$^&%!! of an expensive way to write!
>
> Aside - _When_ will Adobe release the Distiller for Linux??
>