Den 19. sep. 2006 kl. 10.11 skrev taliesin the storyteller:
>
> LaTeX is free and makes pdfs (well, pdflatex does). I wrote my Masters
> thesis in LaTeX. Openoffice can, provided you have Java (which is
> free),
> also save directly to pdf. Openoffice is free. If you have OSX they
> should be easy enough to get hold of.
Hm, thanks. I didn't know that. Should be useful.
> If you use Word's html
> I recommend you also get a hold of the little program tidy, which
> turns
> bad html like Word makes into good html that you can display online
> with
> pride. Heck, get tidy anyway, it'll clean up the html so it takes less
> space and breaks fewer browsers regardless of source of the html.
Yes, I have a few pages that need this treatment. Tidy will be useful
there I'm sure. MS Word will really mess up an html document.
> I write my pages directly as xhtml. That is, I write them as broken
> html
> then run tidy on them which fills in the missing stuff for me. But
> for a
> real pro look, pdf can't be beat.
I've been disenchanted with the idea that my browser has to launch
another program in order to be able to read a document. But today it
seems they are able to read pdf, so why not...
LEF