Re: [SL] pdf and freebsd

[Stroller <lin...@my...>]

On 1 Nov 2006, at 08:33, Luc van Stappershoef wrote:
>>
>>> Any good tutorials or threads on customizing pdf templates
>>
>> There are no pdf templates per se but latex templates. You can get  
>> a lot
>> of literature at http://www.tug.org
>
> FYI: Openoffice 2.04 is now able to export to latex

In desperation, trying to work out why a format wasn't working on my  
invoice.tex, I tried Openoffice's exported LaTeX this week. For our  
purposes, at least, it seems quite terrible, and I wouldn't recommend  
it.

The release notes for OO 2.04 say:
    Feature list for the latex export filter Note: We can not establish
    any further contact to the developer so I write this Changes mail
    on basis of the features I found while testing.

And yesterday I would have told you that there was no apparent  
activity on the website for Writer2LaTeX - the convertor on which  
this feature of OO is based - in the last 15 months. <http://www.hj- 
gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/>

I think that something like lyx would be far more useful if you want  
a graphical mark-up for LaTeX. After a gew days of stumbling with  
this language I am finally finding it very effective.

Stroller.