Simple Linux word processor to create trivially styled PDF?

I want to create a trivially styled PDF. What's a simple Linux word processor I can use?:

• I want to em开发者_如何学Pythonbolden some text and put headers on each page w/ enlarged text. I also want to decide where the page breaks are.

• Is LaTeX good for something like this? Is there a latex2pdf program?

• OpenOffice seems too "big" for this (plus it doesn't work on my machine).

• I consider using HTML and then html2pdf but I'm not sure I could do paging like that (unless I broke up each file into multiple HTML pages, shudder).

• Would enriched text (or even RTF?) be good for something like this? Are there Linux word processors that can produce these formats and programs that can convert them to PDF?

I sense I'm missing something basic (this can't be hard), but can't figure out what.

LaTeX would do the job. Now the vast majority of LaTeX users produce PDF as their primary format; the command is pdflatex. LaTeX would be especially suited if you need an automatable process. In the same lines you could have a look at Apache FOP which is an XSL-FO processor that can output PDF. It may be well suited if your input data is XML.

If you don't need to automate the process, then you may use a simple word processor program such as Abiword or KWord. Both of them can work in RTF (which should be sufficient for what you need), or in their own file format.