From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 7:41:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nimitz.ca.sandia.gov (nimitz.ca.sandia.gov [146.246.243.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C51637B6F9 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:41:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by nimitz.ca.sandia.gov (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) id e1NFf7o23020; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:41:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200002231541.e1NFf7o23020@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1-cvs 10/15/1999 To: Nate Puri Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FrameMaker under compat/linux? In-Reply-To: <20000223050530.17526.qmail@web3306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20000223050530.17526.qmail@web3306.mail.yahoo.com> Comments: In-reply-to Nate Puri message dated "Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:05:30 -0800." From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Url: http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-887244589P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:41:07 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-887244589P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Nate Puri wrote: > I'm trying to make the Linux FrameMaker port run under > compat/linux, but to no avail. Has anyone made this > work? I haven't tried this. > Alternatively, anyone with FrameMaker experience able > to enlighten me on it's capabilities vis a vis LaTeX > and LyX? Thanks... You didn't say what you were wanting to use either program for, but here's a former academic's perspective, based on a lot of FrameMaker usage, and a little bit of LaTeX/LyX: Both are very nice document processors, in that they're capable of dealing with large files, and they encourage working in a structured environment (e.g. you describe parts of the text by what they *are*, rather than what they *look like*). Both do quite well at importing graphics files from other sources. LaTeX and FrameMaker both run on UNIX, Windows, and MacOS, don't know about LyX. FrameMaker: Easy to create many different types of documents. A nice drawing editor built-in. WYSIWYG editor. LyX/LaTeX: Bibliographic database support (bibtex). The standard in the math/scientific world for math/equation typesetting. Plain LaTeX (no LyX) gives you the ability to use whatever editor you want. When I was a CS grad student, my department was pretty evenly split between FrameMaker and LaTeX (LyX wasn't around at the time), with the theoretical computer scientist types preferring LaTeX and the systems folk preferring FrameMaker. I did my dissertation on FrameMaker but in retrospect I could have used LaTeX just as easily. If you are producing documents for a conference or publication, it'd be really useful to know what the receipients prefer. For example, many IEEE-sponsored conferences and publications strongly prefer submissions in LaTeX. If that doesn't matter, try 'em both and see which works better for you. Hope this helps, Bruce. --==_Exmh_-887244589P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: nhem2yReKKcArnzji82h/0hZOIAJn30E iQA/AwUBOLP/k9jKMXFboFLDEQImqACgtJ5446i41+2WUTcooPZLjtvKt1MAniCh uC4JAxL7NzjlrM/T0uc4Kjnw =WA61 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-887244589P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message