From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 20:55:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA22189 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 20:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from tok.qiv.com (ddUYy4mf/a1Ud0XbA/BMdX23T4OfSZj6@[204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA22183 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 20:55:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdn@qiv.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with UUCP id WAA20711; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 22:54:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02117; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 22:54:10 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 22:54:09 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: Stephen Cooper , mlduke@concentric.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: RE: Pretty Stuff In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | > * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * > | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| > * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * > | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > >