Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: Any good WYSIWIG desktop publishing software on UNIX Workstations? Message-ID: <269CFC1E.58FE@intercon.com> Date: 12 Jul 90 22:39:26 GMT References: <1924@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> <4540005@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 20 In article <4540005@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM>, wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) writes: > Check it out before charging off after Frame or Interleaf. I've tried > both of those, and like the Publisher better. I admit my experience is minimal (i.e., I've played with demo versions of all three, but I haven't built large documents with anything but LaTeX), but the only piece of Publisher that I liked was the equation editor. It is hot stuff. As for the rest of it, though, I wasn't too impressed. It's only a little more WYSIWYG than LaTeX + a fast previewer, and it's user interface seems almost as unintuitive as Interleaf's. Of them all, Interleaf struck me as the most powerful and obtuse, and Frame seemed the easiest to learn and use. Publisher's main strengths seemed to be in the mathematics features. Publisher would be great for a physics thesis, but it's user interface could use a lot of polishing. On the plus side (for some people), it does support SGML import & export, as I remember. -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation