From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 07:03:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA05136 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:03:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lsmarso.dialup.access.net (lsmarso@lsmarso.dialup.access.net [166.84.254.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA05124 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lsmarso@localhost) by lsmarso.dialup.access.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA01514 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:59:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970912095918.37961@panix.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:59:18 -0400 From: "Larry S. Marso" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [lsmarso@panix.com: Re: Word processors under FreeBSD] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To successfully compile this under freebsd, you need to specify: configure --disable-nls (might be just one "-" before disable). -----Forwarded message from "Larry S. Marso" ----- From: "Larry S. Marso" To: Natasha Hendrick , Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In addition to StarOffice and Applix, which I'd categorize as poor "Word clones", there is a simply marvelous front-end for the document processing system LaTeX. It's called LyX. The software is on the verge of a new release with lots of WYSIWYG features that bring the system closer to it's word processing competitors, while preserving the amazing flexibility of raw LaTeX. There's a public release 10.7 that's almost a year old. Instead, I'd recommend the latest developers beta (the precursor of the 0.12 release, expected in the next 30 days or so), available at: ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/lyx/devel/0.11/lyx-0.11.36.tar.gz This is source code, which compiles cleanly without patches under FreeBSD. You'll also need to install the teTeX distribution from /usr/ports/print/teTeX Give this system a try. It's a real treat. -- Larry S. Marso lsmarso@panix.com On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 01:08:10PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 01:19:00PM +1000, Natasha Hendrick wrote: > > > > I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.2 and am trying to find an effective > > (and cheap) way to be able to access a word processor from my PC without > > having to reboot to DOS to use MS word. Someone has suggested to me that > > it may be possible to run Applix (?) using a Linux emulator that is > > available for FreeBSD. > > Quite possibly. > > > Are there any word processors available for FreeBSD? > > None specifically for FreeBSD. A number of people have been happy > with StarOffice, which is really a Linux port. > > > Does anyone have any other suggestions to allow easy access to a > > word processor while running FreeBSD? > > About the only other alternative would be the Microsoft Windows > emulator, wine. I don't know if it could handle any Microsoft-based > word processors. > > Greg -----End of forwarded message-----