Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

On 06 Feb 2008, Dan H. wrote:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:29:40AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord?

After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it
seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really
chugging on dealing with my document which was a mere 25 pages of prose
so far.

Yeah, same here. It's probably been 2 years that I tried AbiWord, but my
main impression was just "sluggish". Very unresponsive. Although, in
principle, nobody can type or read as fast as the most lardy app can swallow
or choke up text, the "feel" just isn't right.

OOo is bog-slow when starting up (and it does nameserver lookups, WTF for? I
noticed recentyl when my NS was down), but after that it gets tolerable.

Still a snail when compared to M$ Office on the same machine.

--D.

Why has no one in this thread mentioned Lyx? I've just used it to
produce two books for Lulu and have found it good for that purpose. But
I don't use it to produce the actual text; for that I use (g)vim. Once
the text is more or less as I want it I then import it into Lyx for
working up into the right format.

Incidentally, a tip for anyone who is thinking of using Lulu: you can
upload your file as postscript, which obviates all the messing about
trying to produce an acceptable pdf file. But for some reason Lulu
doesn't advertise this option.

Anthony


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