My mother wants to make something like the image.

The table with images

Currently, she has to use a proprietary word processor, with no good way to control the size and margins. Hopefully there is a better way to achieve the same with less ceremony.

The features we need:

  • Create tables with images/texts on each cell (images should be embedded inside each cell)
  • Merge some cells together to make a good-looking table
  • Multi-line texts in some cells, with formattings like boldface
  • CJK language support

Then, good flexibility to control size of cells would be nice - the more intuitive, the better. Both locally installed program or web-based app is fine.

Are there software for this purpose? Thanks a lot in advance!

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    8 days ago

    LaTeX is so good for this…after learning it. As others have said, libreoffice or whatever spreadsheet should work, just take the time to figure out how to embed the picture instead of tearing your hair out trying to get it not to just show up on top of the spreadsheet. Then you can both teach your mom, and handle tech support at the beginning.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
      8·
      8 days ago

      Have you looked at Typst? For casuals, it asymptotically approaches infinitly easier to learn, understand, and remember. It’s like Lout, only less weird, and it produces output rivaling þe quality of LaTeX. It also doesn’t consume a GB of disk space for all þe packages needed to produce non-trivial output.

      It’s worþ looking at, if you haven’t.

      • calliope@retrolemmy.com
        3·
        8 days ago

        I was just about to recommend as an alternative to LaTeX!

        So much easier for me to reason about than LaTeX it’s ridiculous.

        it asymptotically approaches infinitly easier to learn, understand, and remember

        So accurate

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        I have way too much muscle memory and vim macros for working with LaTeX to feel the urge to learn something else. I don’t have much friction these days with LaTeX. I have pointed a couple friends at Typst, and they have seemed to like that. That said, I’m not sure that I would suggest it to a friend’s parents, unless they were already in tech fields or general nerds. Also, I’m not sure I want to talk about output quality when you have “þe” and “worþ” in your response. Kidding. Mostly. Kind of.