From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 16:54:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06DE51065678 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:54:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anti_spam256@yahoo.ca) Received: from n11.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (n11.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [74.6.228.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87A9F8FC1B for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [76.13.12.66] by n11.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Jun 2010 16:53:58 -0000 Received: from [76.13.10.175] by t7.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Jun 2010 16:53:58 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp116.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Jun 2010 16:53:58 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 580861.40076.bm@omp116.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 86733 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Jun 2010 16:53:58 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.ca; s=s1024; t=1276102438; bh=yuXJRnLfxZgSUUJueoh35jYkut+8CfTu31DqjqP7+Hs=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=VnwPRlPwg4nmUnh96hLqcZnR8QAqBYkMNtgxSbpxomRfA+bEJr1i3SHEermWlgPcX8l5VEQRPP/j1trUJdFHgw76ouGwBjp7JcbC9ltc5PIoSz7uREvSJuKkfbkIFfuTf932kIW8oBdv7TuWkXHxPHw6sSNFQwQEsd2LMUjDiDk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=zsVMnMGzcA/3kTmN2jv0OGBEDGA5qLn60PDrYuGLfze3w6ivuHPHnTtvCdd+A4U+x9zdmDQModxe2Lsn/Tsf0T0khyhTxeVv61aPinyUgyj7zBFhYjg6A8xfjRm/7mvPmIvZ3crJv82vlIWqtEs1l0OrmbXD1MVvevwiCa1wOhg=; Message-ID: <357127.81193.qm@web65509.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: unaWZL4VM1nU9NiXmOD7hmFnjFNsQNqJcQeIRm9anHGqZV6 il5jNNG7_YWx7dAd1KBqn24rKG9tcJHgV8bulxE5rgZYgPIrVb1P7EvpiuUJ SQXJ8HgJyOALD_E.uZQ6rS59jB9C5TTebrIC7VrU1FZENUEHQtcXmAKIopMh r2lbja9utKdb9PNbuPXcvpkOUXq9o_eiSdyJI_ENgoFL1mpffDVCdPeG5YcC jd8CdseoOafCTchKty1BbC9pHpo4s3H_lD3lncGbZd93dgx9DaEZLI2ri7DE hGoOFTrJ18Wcsusv3aFGqaRgreO9sLAMIf3whmuvxiixzcUrWBQ.Onv9loBQ Gew-- Received: from [208.99.137.71] by web65509.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:53:57 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.1.3 YahooMailWebService/0.8.103.269680 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:53:57 -0700 (PDT) From: James Phillips To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20100609120012.BED0F10656D0@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: office apps X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:54:00 -0000 > Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:44:17 -0600 > From: Chad Perrin > Subject: Re: office apps > To: FreeBSD Questions > Message-ID: <20100609004417.GC37528@guilt.hydra> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > I don't really like Oo.org either. It is a little better than MS-Office, be seems to follow the same general design philosophy. > > I wish I'd find a foolproof, simple, transparent way for me > to see and > edit well-formatted plain text no matter what nonsense > bloated featuritis > infected office suite anyone else wanted to use. Well, I heard RTF is useful for interoperability between MS word versions, but I am not sure how well interoperability between different vendors works in practice. The Wikipedia page says RTF is a proprietary standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format You may also want to use an SGML variant like HTML or XML, but those can be tedious to manually edit. For quick messages, Plain ASCII text is much better unless you need a different character set. In that case, Unicode text will probably work. Regards, James Phillips > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]