Re: Possibly OT: document composition software
Norbert Grundmann <[email protected]>
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or maybe lyx? A web gui using TeX in the background. I used it more than 20 years ago for my diploma :-) All the best, Norbert :-) On 7/28/25 12:34, Piotr Smyrak wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:50:18 +0200 > Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> wrote: > >> An user of mine has a need: she must produce gobs of documents which >> often comprise the same part of text (usually paragraphs or whole >> chapters), but differs in some small details or in header/footer. >> >> That's something I would easily arrange with LaTeX, make and other >> "developers'" tools, if I had to do that myself; however I need to >> give her some more "user-friendly", non technical-oriented tool. >> >> Bonus: these documents must be versioned; that's something she does >> manually now, but if the software would help... >> >> Something web-based (possibly running on FreeBSD) would probably be >> fine, but a desktop application would also do (but then it should be >> able to run on Windows). >> >> Does such tools exist? How would they be called? (I have no idea what >> search terms to use). >> Any reccomenendations? > Have you looked at Scribus (print/scribus)? > https://www.scribus.net/ > > HTH, -- I love penguins at the south pole, windows in my house and apples on my tree, but not in my computer :)