For formal documents, such as Design Documents, etc. I had been using Docbook for years,
then moved to the Fedora Publican toolchain. Looks like that hasn't had an update in 4
years or so. Then I moved to AsciiDoc, and AsciiDoctor which use a Wiki markup language
instead of XML and publishes to HTML/PDF, etc or also to Docbook and Publican.
This produces correct two-sided PDF ( with page numbers on alternating sides ), indexes,
tables, images, etc. Has existing style-sheets for multi-page HTML, and PDF output.
This is overkill if your not producing 40+ pages. Docbook has a steep learning curve, so
the AsciiDoctor route is much easier.
https://powerman.name/doc/asciidoc
I remember that it was hard to install Publican on other than Fedora, so I have a Fedora VM just for documentation tooling.
Technically this is text processing, not word processing. I use Emacs nXML mode to edit Docbook. Emacs has an adoc-mode
for Asciidoc but I haven't used it yet.
But you can't typically make it do what you want - you only get formal output per the stylesheets which looks
much like other RedHat
Examples of HTML and PDF output are here:
Most on-line projects only use HTML output , as the PDF tool chain is much more complicated to get working, but it certainly works.
Also the source for any report will likely be dozens of files ( so you need a source control repo to manage a single doc )
along with the build config
I use LibraOffice for everything else.
Lee
From: "Casey Bralla" <MailList@NerdWorld.org>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <PLUG@Lists.PhillyLinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, 17 November, 2018 10:33:14
Subject: [PLUG] Open Source Equivalent of WordPerfect
Does anybody know if there is an open source equivalent to WordPerfect?
All the word processing programs I have tried all seem to emulate MS
Word, which I detest. I used to be able to make WP sing, but MS Word
is a burden since it tries to outsmart me and anticipate what it thinks
I want to do, instead of letting me do what I really want to do!
I've been using LibreOffice, and it's adequate, but I was hoping for more.
Anybody have any suggestions?
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