From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 6:48:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7CE37B400 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 06:48:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16cp5R-0003Ux-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:48:13 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 4B81A13040 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:48:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id E3AFE22590; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:48:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:48:11 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-ID: <20020218144811.GA863@raggedclown.net> References: <867kpalvbx.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <867kpalvbx.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:26:42AM -0600, D. Michael McFarland wrote: > Don Tyson writes: > > > Others on this list have suggested formatting in PDF using > > dvipdfm or ps2pdf or some other utility. Presumably that > > would work for presenting the document, but probably not if you need > > to pass it back and forth editing or changing, unless you > > send a plain text file with it. > > I've tried that, and in fact it's my preferred way of interacting with > coauthors who are making only trivial changes ("print it out, scribble > on it and fax it back"). But we're all engineers in academia--control > freaks to a man, and everyone wants to get his hands on the files. > > I'm coming to think my best bet is to be so productive that they never > catch up :-), which is probably what I should be doing anyway. > > Thank you for your reply. I posted my original message mostly to let > off some steam, and it's good to know I'm not alone. > Is Wordperfect the answer ? I don't know if the Linux version of it runs on FreeBSD, but I guess it should (I didn't check the ports). Unlike Word, WP doesn't change it's internal structure every 5 minutes, I believe it handles Word documents...just a thought. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message