From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 15 15: 9:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom1-078.telepath.com [216.14.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFF4437B423 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:09:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 35669 invoked by uid 100); 15 Sep 2000 22:09:02 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14786.40446.242737.898910@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:09:02 -0500 (CDT) To: Igor Roboul Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Star Office and editor In-Reply-To: <84250151@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 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 Igor Roboul writes: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:44:50AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I haven't written it off yet, but I *need* a professional quality word > > processor - yesterday. WP8 is minimally acceptable, but doesn't have > > the typesetting capabilities I want. AbiWord has those capabilities, > > but can't handle the page layout needs I have. > Professional quality word processor is The TeX. But it is not WYSIWYG :-) > But if you'll take some time to learn TeX/LaTeX you'll be very happy > with low resources, speed of typing, guarantired results regardless of > your priner/display/hardware Actually, I've used TeX and LaTeX before. I even wrote a stripped-down version for CP/M once upon a time. I generally prefer it to WP packages (like we've been discussing) for things longer than a half-dozen pages or so. A good DTP package - one with the kinds of structuring control that TeX gives you is better, but hard to find. However, contrary to someone's claim that Unix doesn't have high quality WYSIWYG, such DTP tools have been around since before Windows. Packages like FrameMaker and Interleaf appeared on Unix workstations in the early 80s, and are still available for them. Until recently, they haven't been available for Unix on Intel, but Adobe recently released a beta of FrameMaker for Linux. With help from Sean O'Connell, that's now working on my FreeBSD system. Very, very cool! Thanx to all,