Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 04:14:28 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: john@goodleaf.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pretty far OT--Database journals Message-ID: <14847.60676.702195.838370@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <29801187@toto.iv>
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john@goodleaf.net types: > For academic reasons, I find myself needing to read some database journals. > However, the list of recommended journals seems more like a list of trade > rags to me (e.g. SQL Server Magazine). I hope to find something less > vendorish and more "academic." Try checking the ACM web site <URL: http://www.acm.org/ > SIG listings to see if any of the SIGs have a journal you can use. Failing that, I'd try the less specific journals (JACM, for instance). > I'd like to be able to write my abstracts (glorified book reports) without > feeling like I'm helping the M$ cottage industry. Any recommendations? I hope to get a page up over the next week about the various WP packages available for FreeBSD. Look in /usr/ports/editors for choices, though - starwriter (in the staroffice52 port), kword (koffice), AbiWord and a WordPerfect demo are all in the ports tree. If you really want to support FreeBSD, you can buy Applixware Office from the FreeBSD Mall <URL: http://www.freebsdmall.com/ >. Finally, there's a Linux port of Frame in beta from Adobe <URL: http://www.adobe.com > that can be made to work. If you don't have to follow a specific style guide, all of them but AbiWord (it's a pre-1.0 release) will probably do the job. If you have to follow a style guide, you may want to drop kword (ditto) as well. Starwriter is the only free one that makes that cut, and I'd use it if I could stand the user interface. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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