Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 22:54:09 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson <jdn@qiv.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Stephen Cooper <stephen.cooper@alphawest.com.au>, mlduke@concentric.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: RE: Pretty Stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215211041.1974A-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215202235.18278A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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If you need M$WORD compatibility, your choices are pretty much limited
to commercial products. The Andrew system includes a word procesor
which does most basic word processing type things and exports rtf --
which Micro$**t products will read with varying degrees of success.
Corel also, I think, has a Java version of an office wuite which may
interest you.
TeX and kin (LaTeX is a macro package for TeX) is a _markup_ language.
I use it all the time and love it. It is -- in fact -- the grandaddy
of commercial typesetting systems. But be prepared to belly up to the
bar. The learning curve is steep.
Lyx is a delightful WYIWYG package that will do most word processing
chores and is based on Tex (LaTeX, really) and is _much_ more useable
than WORD or its clones but is not importable into commercial word
processors. Also, don't overlook troff as a mark up tool.
The choices seem to boil down to this, a) use a commercial product to
get as much and as little as you have seen in the DOS/ETC world or b)
use a Unix tool which gives you all the power and flexibility you
could want (and is portable to almost all other systems except M$WORD).
I will (can't resist) make the observation that Micro$**t has made it
possible for more people to churn out more crap in less time than ever
before possible. As an ex typsetter, I find that offensive.
Try Lyx -- I think it's the best of both worlds.
-- Jay
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Stephen Cooper wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, December 16, 1997 7:26 AM, mlduke@concentric.net
> > [SMTP:mlduke@concentric.net] wrote:
> > > On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Stephen Cooper wrote:
> > > > > (I'm running 2.22.-RELEASE) that will left/right justify text and
> > do
> > > > bold
> > > > > print and such?
> > > >
> > > > hmm, i would be interested in such a thing. did you recieve any
> > replies?
> > > >
> > > Your's is the first. I'll let you know if I learn anything.
> > > I have a hunch the question is a bit too "stupid" for most
> > > list members.
> > >
> > > Duke
> >
> > I dont think your question is stupid. All of us have to do reports
> > eventuallly.
> >
> > I have had a lot of exposure to various unix environments, there are not
> > many wordprocessors in general for Unix, Applixware make one, Frame make
> > another. (Neither of which work under BSD) Wordperfect as I understand
> > it has been ported to BSDI, which is supposed to work on FreeBSD due to
> > binary compatibility. As you can imagine, it is not Freeware ;)
> You might want to look into StarOffice; I've heard that it does well
> (under Linux emulation, of course, since it's a Linux app). Or, if you're
> adventurous, look at LaTeX, which is a text formatting language (kinda
> like HTML). Basically, you write it in any text editor including tags for
> things like bold, italic, center, etc. Then you run it through a filter
> on it's way to the printer, and it comes out formatted. I image there's a
> previewer available; there may even be editors that can save in LaTeX
> format. I'm not a LaTeX expert; I just know that it exists; someone else
> can probably tell you more.
>
> >
> > Steve
> >
>
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