Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 21:53:21 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Bob Willcox <bob@pmr.com>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990510215235.24802P-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905102155270.401-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > I went ahead and installed WordPerfect on my system and tried a couple > > of Word documents I had laying around (nothing particularly complex) and > > they did, indeed, seem to work fine. Of course, complex documents may > > be an altogether different story. > > Alex sent me a pointer to one, 400K in size, and it caused WP to > segfault. Maybe there's some problem with graphics (I think there were > some embedded graphics in it). > > I don't care too much, I used to use WP a lot at a company I used to > work for, and I liked it a *great* deal more than I ever liked Word. > The interface feels nice enough. I'll use it any time I don't use groff > directly. > > I'm starting to investigate xsl (although I haven't time enough for it > yet). It begins to look *extremely* promising. If you know much about > formatting languages like troff or TeX, you might want to see xlm, DOM > and xsl. Take a look at the IBM web site. > > Heck, that's a good excuse to go take a look at one of the most dynamic > programming web sites out there. Take a look at the IBM web site, most > especially if you like java or xml or parsers, or .... IBM is diving > into open source, feet first! The document convertion stuff probably stinks, but has anyone tried KOffice? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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