From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 17: 3:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB5737C24F for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (tntwc01-3-52.idx.com.au [203.166.3.52]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA04973; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:03:17 +1000 From: Danny To: "Jonathan Fosburgh" , , "Richard E. Hawkins" Subject: Re: star office and aplixware compared on .doc and .xls? Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:08:42 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <020901bfe139$1197cdd0$ca406f8f@mdacc.tmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00062910093401.01006@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -HEllo -Koffice has no suppoart for *.doc files etc etc - Unless they made progress in the last 6 months On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > > > > Personally, there's no way I'm going back to a word processor after > > lyx, but I do use a spreadsheet once a year for taxes (I think I have > > few enough students to not use one this year for grades, but maybe not > > . . ) > This is my same opinion. I use LyX for the vast majority of documents I > write, and use StarOffice (possibly KOffice in the future) to interchange > documents with those who only use MS formats. Even then, I often produce the > document in LyX and translate it to rtf, then take it into StarOffice to > clean it up and send it in whatever format is requested. This has given me > good results with things such as my resume, which everyone (almost) requests > as .doc. I find StarOffice is more compatible with MS Office than anything, > including MS Office. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- You are not authorized to use my email address for any purpose. This is a violation of my privacy. Remove my email address from your databases immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message