[Lincs] Event Flyer

[Keith Marshall]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 5:04 pm, Dave Pearson wrote:
> * Grahame.Mulliss at ulh.nhs.uk <Grahame.Mulliss at ulh.nhs.uk> [2004-08-05 
16:25:55 +0100]:
> > ><URL:http://www.fractalconcept.com/asp/html/cl-pdf.html> is something
> > >I've been meaning to toy with for a while now.
> >
> > Will have a look at... truth is that my free time is pretty limited at
> > the moment so it all depends on that. I presume it's a little like LATeX
> > in that it's a tag based typesetting system?
>
> Sort of; but with a hugely powerful programming language thrown in for
> free. Probably total overkill for producing a flyer but what the hell...

Another option you could consider is the grandfather of all *nix typesetting 
tools -- troff.  The GNU version of this, known as groff, can be found at 
http://groff.ffii.org

It's also a tag, (or rather mark up), based typesetting system, but doesn't 
have such a steep learning curve as LaTeX.  I use it routinely, with a bit of 
help from GhostScript, to produce technical documentation in PDF format.  
I've dabbled with some alternatives, but keep going back to groff;  (having 
contributed to the groff project, I'm biased, of course :-)  Haven't tried 
setting out flyers or posters with it, though it should be well capable.

Best regards,
Keith