[pmwiki-users] Page break when printing
Kathryn Andersen
kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org
Fri Mar 2 17:36:55 CST 2007
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:13:29AM -0500, Sandy wrote:
> christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, kirpi at kirpi.it wrote:
>
> >> P.S. This thread of mines grew on the attempt to convince my little
> >> cousin to adopt pmwiki (instead of M$Word) for her university papers.
> >> Does anybody have live experience on this? Suggestions, advices,
> >> warnings...?
> >
> > I don't think it'd be a good idea - to slow to edit pages that way, and
> > her university will probably have requirements on the formatting.
> Engineering graduate and technical writer here. Lots of writing, solo,
> with groups, and everything in between. Largest project was 500 pages of
> QA documents.
>
> Much as I hate monopolies, I use Word for all but the smallest
> compositions, especially those to be printed. It's designed for it. More
Real Academics use LaTeX. 8-)
Best and prettiest output for printing. Doesn't crash like M$-Word.
If you want more WYSIWG-like, then use LyX (http://www.lyx.org)
On the other hand, if one is doing *collaborative* work, then a Wiki
does have advantages.
Kathryn Andersen
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