Re: [seul-edu] Linux DTP

[jeff williams <cfiaime@nconnect.net>]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> 
> What's the matter with StarOffice? StarWriter has most of these 
> features, doesn't it?

> >     I have no idea how I'm supposed to teach a DTP class without DTP 
> > software. I checked out the www.chilliware.net 
> > <http://www.chilliware.net> site Doug posted a few weeks ago, but 
> > their DTP product will not be shipped until January. I'm trying to get 
> > a demo.

Greetings,

Actually, StarWriter is a high end word processor.  It still isn't DTP with the
high level of control of a DTP.  It can be used as one, however, in a limited
sense.  This holds true of Word Perfect as well.  (In a college course I am
teaching we are using either StarOffice or MS Office for light DTP tasks.  I've
left the choice of package to the student -- although I am helping to install
Linux on various machines.)

I'd think you would want to teach DTP with something that actually is a DTP
package.  TeX is certainly a desktop publishing tool, although probably raw TeX
or LaTeX may be a bit much for beginning DTP students.  Thus the idea of a
package that builds on top of the basic TeX engine.

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