CAVI Linux Course was Re: LaTeX and big writing projects

[Kerry Hoath]

This is all good information, I'll link to some of these things on our 
linux wiki at
http://linuxwiki.ciscovision.org

we are running an intro to Linux command-line admin course at the 
academy at the moment and all the resources are free for the taking 
although the certificate costs.
http://www.cucat.org,
select student resources, then linux intro.

regards, Kerry.


On 4/03/2012 2:20 PM, Jason White wrote:
> Michael Whapples<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>  wrote:
>> The wikibook on LaTeX is quite good, I tend to use that as a reference book,
>> although it does have sections which would be good for beginners as well.
>>
>> I have to agree with Liz though, you may come across times where the
>> expected format means using LaTeX is not possible (eg. I am studying with
>> the Open University and I must submit my project report as a word document
>> or RTF).
>
> You can still write it in LaTeX and convert it. Tex4ht is the best package for
> this. It can generate HTML, XHTML or ODF. Unoconv (which uses LibreOffice) can
> take this and convert it to RTF or even MS-Word format.
>
> Even if you need a word processor format in the end, this doesn't mean you
> have to use a word processor to create it.
>
> I think there are conversions from Docbook as well, but I haven't investigated
> those. Almost everyone with whom I have ever exchanged documents has gladly
> accepted either PDF or HTML.
>
> There are other interesting formats worth mentioning also, such as Emacs
> Org-mode, Mardown, RestructuredText and so on, which again are supported by
> ocnversion tools.
>
> The only situation in which I would use a word processor is one in which I had
> a document with formatting that needed to be preserved, which I was
> collaboratively editing with a word processor user.
>
> At that point, LibreOffice would probably be a necessity, despite the bad
> editing environment compared with Emacs or Vim.
>
>
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