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I am one of those annoying LaTeX people now, so my “word processor” ends up being tmux, NeoVim, and Nix, but I understand that that’s not for most people. Libr
by tombert 2y ago
I am one of those annoying LaTeX people now, so my “word processor” ends up being tmux, NeoVim, and Nix, but I understand that that’s not for most people.
LibreOffice is honestly fine nowadays. I feel like Excel is probably a bit better than Calc, but Calc is still capable enough for most tasks.
The documents look decent enough, it’s easy to use, it’s reasonably fast, and you can’t really beat the price.
I have to admit that a reason that I haven’t touched it much is pretty silly: I like the icons for OpenOffice better. LibreOffice’s icons look too…childish? Hard to explain, and obviously subjective, but I wish I could get import OpenOffices icons into LibreOffice.
- buovjaga 2y agoLibreOffice comes with six icon themes. Do you mean every single one of them is childish or only a particular one?
- tombert 2y agoI guess the default one. I haven’t tried the other ones.
- buovjaga 2y agoThe default one is different per operating system or desktop environment. On KDE it's Breeze, on Windows it's Colibre, on macOS it's Sifr (off the top of my head).
- tombert 2y agoI just checked, the one I was using, the default on NixOS with Sway, was Elementary, which I didn't like. I will admit that I liked the other built-in ones better, but I still like OpenOffice's better than any of them.
- pickledoyster 2y ago>I wish I could get import OpenOffices icons into LibreOffice. I haven't tried it, but I think it's quite possible: https://documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documentation/en/GS5.2/HTML/GS5214-CustomizingLibreOffice.html#a__Choosing_icons_for_toolbar_commands https://documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documen...
- tombert 2y agoNo question, though I don't think I'm anywhere near ambitious enough to do that. I might compile OpenOffice and see how well that stacks up nowadays.
- int_19h 2y agoIt's a scale. While straight up writing TeX is not for must, there's also stuff like LyX and TeXmacs.
- tombert 2y agoYou know, I have really tried to like TeXmacs, and I just can't. It's kind of cool, but it really feels like an amateur product to me. The UI is hard to navigate, everything feels kind of clunky. The documents it produces look nice, so it's not "bad" or anything, but I found it kind of awkward to use. As it stands, the compromise that I do is write Markdown and render it to LaTeX or XeLaTeX with Pandoc. Not claiming it's the "best" or anything, but the documents look nice to me and Markdown is easy to write.