From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 2:14:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71DB237B4C5 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 02:14:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21903 invoked by uid 100); 1 Nov 2000 10:14:28 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14847.60676.702195.838370@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 04:14:28 -0600 (CST) To: john@goodleaf.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pretty far OT--Database journals In-Reply-To: <29801187@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 . Finally, there's a Linux port of Frame in beta from Adobe 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.