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> Word-Processing and Poster presenting tools on Linux
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>8. Word-Processing and Poster presenting tools on Linux</H1
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> Those of you who do not use <A
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> LaTeX</A
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> and find it challenging and want a WYSIWYG word processor,
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keep your ears tuned to <A
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>OpenOffice
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which has released version 1.2 of its openoffice software. Its tools
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may compare well with the best in the market.
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>8.1. Word Processing Tools</H2
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.latex-project.org"
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>Latex</A
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>:
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LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for
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the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the
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de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific
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documents.
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<A
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> David R.Wilkin's primer </A
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> "Getting Started with LaTeX"
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is a good tutorial to getting started with LaTeX.
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For those who have to live with a WYSIWYG documenting tool, check
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>LyX</A
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>. This is a front-end for
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latex. It isn't as powerful as latex proper, but helps with a good WYSIWIG.
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>Lout</A
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A document formatting system similar to latex. Good features, documentation
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and history. Light weight and outputs postscript. Thanks to Emiliano Gavilan
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for this link.
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>Abiword</A
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As the AbiWord home page says,
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"AbiWord is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth".
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It has won many awards and seems to be the best open source WYSIWYG word
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processor. Check out the above link to know more about it and download it.
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> <A
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>kword</A
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As the kword home page says,
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"KWord is a FrameMaker-like word-processing and desktop publishing application.
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KWord is capable of creating demanding and professional looking documents.
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Whether you are a corporate or home user, production artist or student, KWord
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will prove a valuable and easy to use tool for all your word processing and
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layout needs". Check out the above link to know more about it and download it.
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(you might want to know more about the whole <A
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> koffice</A
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>8.2. Poster presentation tools</H2
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> KPresenter</A
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KPresenter is the presentation tool of the KOffice suite of office
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utilities. It allows screen presentations with all the trappings one
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is used to seeing in costly presentation tools. It also allows honest,
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real scientific presentations where one does not have to impress the
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audience with non subject specific stuff :-). The best thing about it
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is the possibility of saving the presentation as a html file. It makes
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portable network graphics files with each presentation slide. With a
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smattering of knowledge of html files one could put in a animated image
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as a image link thereby allowing one to show movies too when necessary.
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>Xfig </A
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Though the man page claims that it is a facility for the
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interactive generation of figures ...., It in fact much more than that.
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Other than generating figures for elucidating what you want to say in
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a poster, it helps you import and export figures in a variety of formats,
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write text in various fonts and sizes, generate Greek symbols and color
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text, Save as latex picture file or any other format supported by your
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word processor for inclusion in your publications, generate GIFs of each
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page of the poster to put on your web site, and finally it generates
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*.fig files which are small in size. The only thing on my wish list for
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xfig is the capability to edit the imported pictures which are not in
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*.fig format. Therefore for a computer screen projected poster
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presentation you need a frames capable browser with contents in one frame
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and the xfig generated posters (exported as *.png or *.jpg from Xfig) on
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the other.
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