[Techtalk] openoffice and scribus

[Chantal Rosmuller]

On Thursday 31 January 2008 14:01:27 Conor Daly wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:43:46AM +0100 or thereabouts, Chantal Rosmuller 
wrote:

> Would their people be open to using Lyx (http://www.lyx.org/)?  Lyx looks
> after layout and the people only need concern themselves with content.  Lyx
> is a gui front end for Latex and can be used with a suitable book DTD and
> template to enforce a style / layout.  Since this is what Latex is all
> about, it should cope more easily with layout requirements than MS Office
> or OOo do.
>
> That said, I don't know if it can export data in a form suitable for use by
> Scribus...
>
> Conor

Hi Conor,

Interesting! I'll have a look. We do not have to use Scribus necessarily, we 
are still experimenting. At the moment everything is still possible :). Thank 
you for your input.