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Subject:Re: Writing and drawing tools in Linux From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:36:25 -0700
KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com wrote:
> What are you Linux-lovin' tech writers using? WordPerfect? LaTex/TeTex
> stuff? Other?
The FrameMaker beta is very popular, but no one knows if it will
result in a finished product. It's proprietary, too, of course.
A lot of free software stuff is done with some flavor of LaTeX.
Chilliware is supposed to have a help authoring tool for Linux due
out this week, but I haven't seen it yet.
Also, now that KDE2 is out, Kword might be worth having a look at.
The developers specifically warned that, during the beta phase,
backwards compatibility couldn't be assured, but I assume that this
statement no longer applies.
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