From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 10 19:31:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E427315575 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 19:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA07671; Mon, 10 May 1999 21:53:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 21:53:21 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Chuck Robey Cc: Bob Willcox , Alex Zepeda , hackers list Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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