Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 09:37:16 -0400 From: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com> To: Natasha Hendrick <natasha@baldrick.geoph.uq.edu.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Word processors under FreeBSD Message-ID: <19970908093716.18380@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <19970908130810.23848@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 01:08:10PM %2B0930 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970908131004.3966A-100000@baldrick.geoph.uq.edu.au> <19970908130810.23848@lemis.com>
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In addition to StarOffice and Applix, which I'd categorize as poor "Word clones", there is a simply marvelous front-end for the document processing system LaTeX. It's called LyX. The software is on the verge of a new release with lots of WYSIWYG features that bring the system closer to it's word processing competitors, while preserving the amazing flexibility of raw LaTeX. There's a public release 10.7 that's almost a year old. Instead, I'd recommend the latest developers beta (the precursor of the 0.12 release, expected in the next 30 days or so), available at: ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/lyx/devel/0.11/lyx-0.11.36.tar.gz This is source code, which compiles cleanly without patches under FreeBSD. You'll also need to install the teTeX distribution from /usr/ports/print/teTeX Give this system a try. It's a real treat. -- Larry S. Marso lsmarso@panix.com On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 01:08:10PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 01:19:00PM +1000, Natasha Hendrick wrote: > > > > I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.2 and am trying to find an effective > > (and cheap) way to be able to access a word processor from my PC without > > having to reboot to DOS to use MS word. Someone has suggested to me that > > it may be possible to run Applix (?) using a Linux emulator that is > > available for FreeBSD. > > Quite possibly. > > > Are there any word processors available for FreeBSD? > > None specifically for FreeBSD. A number of people have been happy > with StarOffice, which is really a Linux port. > > > Does anyone have any other suggestions to allow easy access to a > > word processor while running FreeBSD? > > About the only other alternative would be the Microsoft Windows > emulator, wine. I don't know if it could handle any Microsoft-based > word processors. > > Greg
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