From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 8 17:34:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.198.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6E614E67 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:34:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@marconi.concentric.net) Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman [207.155.198.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id UAA14612; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:34:04 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts001d25.mer-id.concentric.net (ts001d25.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.37]) by newman.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id UAA22004; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:34:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:36:02 -0600 (MDT) From: ML Duke X-Sender: mlduke@concentric.net To: Dutch Collins Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 & SGML/DocBook - In-Reply-To: <37852871.3C5127EB@charm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I have started reading the specs for FreeBSD documentation. I was > wondering > if anyone has tried writing with WordPerfect 8. Yes. It made possible my complete divorce from micro*&^%$!((*&!! about four months ago. It works fine. Clean install, just make sure you do an install in X and _not_ in text mode from the command line. I'm sending compatible documents ($ work) to clients all over the country. win and aol mess documents up, but that can't be helped much. > although I would like to check it out. There is a free version at corel.com. When you load it up, it will show itself with an expiration date, but all you have to do is go register--for free--and you are home free. I bought the registered version from Linux Mall and got a bit of a discount, $40 and change. > [1] is it ok to say shagged in public if you are not in Great > Britain? I have no clue. But don't say "bloody" in English company :) ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message