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[marsum]

I'm completely new to the LaTex, TexLive, Lyx, Kile, and Texmaker waters, stumbling through online guides a little at a time. My interest is primarily in "old fashioned" manuscript formatting because some publishers still want 1970s-style formatting and OpenOffice isn't the ideal text editor for that. I'm a control freak and LaTex, TexLive and the respective gui front-ends have such diverse output formats for flexibility. I Like options

I'm also looking to LaTex for producing attractive advance reading copies in pdf form to get feedback from a select group of readers who use devices like the eCoolerReader, Nook, Kobo, Kindle, etc.

[localghost]

Whatever "old-fashioned" means in this context. LaTeX can be a helpful tool for your projects after you get to grip with the basics.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten