Advice for a document management system

[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Latex looks scary, but I think most people highly overestimate 
> the difficulty of using it.  It fails at the instant 
> gratification that a WYSIWYG tool gives you,

There is LyX with WYSIWYM which may close the gap.

> but then again people were much more productice with 
> wordperfect 5.1 with a text display than they are with word 
> because they spend too much time playing with formating.

I used Word 5 for DOS (menu on bottom) and for me it is one of 
the best word processor ever. :-) I did layouts for few booklet 
using it.

That said, I do like the WP concept where formatting can 
generally be applied to any text (open and closing code).

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