Authoring Tools

WYSIWYG Editors

• OpenOffice ↪: Great alternative to MS Office suite.
  • Source: Apache Software Foundation ↪.
• LibreOffice ↪: Great alternative to MS Office suite.
  • Source: The Document Foundation (TDF) ↪ (2010 fork from Oracle/OpenOffice.org).

Markup Languages

• Comparison of document-markup languages (Wikipedia) ↪
• Markdown ↪: Leightweight "human-readable" text markup language for simple docs (ex: README.md files).
  • Markdown (Wikipedia) ↪
  • Often used to generate .html (web pages)
• ASCIIDoc ↪: "Human-readable" text markup language. More elaborate than "Markdown". Better suited for typical documents applications.
  • ASCIIDoc (Wikipedia) ↪
  • Asciidoctor ↪: A textprocessor implementation for ASCIIDoc.
  • Support for LaTeX equations (+ other equation markup languages).
  • Ideal for generating .html (web pages), .pdf, and other document formats.
• LaTeX ↪: A document preparation system. Highly flexible. Used to generate many professional textbooks & theses.
  • LaTeX (Wikipedia) ↪
  • Based on the TeX (Wikipedia) ↪ typesetting system (Donald Knuth).
  • Excellent system to construct mathematical equations (though somewhat difficult to read).

TeX editors

• Comparison of TeX editors (Wikipedia) ↪
• TeXnicCenter (Windows) ↪
• MiKTeX (Windows) ↪: Backend to TeXnicCenter.