by Chris Menn » Mon, 25 Sep 1995 04:00:00
I'm looking for a free and relatively ok wordprocessor...Something
for X that'll use multiple fonts (like the megs of 'em on the cd),
sub/super script, normal B/U/I stuff, and the like....any help in finding
something is much appreaciated, thanks.
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by S. Michael Dent » Fri, 29 Sep 1995 04:00:00
: I'm looking for a free and relatively ok wordprocessor...Something
: for X that'll use multiple fonts (like the megs of 'em on the cd),
: sub/super script, normal B/U/I stuff, and the like....any help in finding
: something is much appreaciated, thanks.
: --
: Nobody has more fun than an E gobbling kiddie out to have a good time. :)
Well, first of all, i use IV (InterViews), the 'iv' disk set (2 1.44's) and it
looks ALMOST like wp or word for windows... you might wanna try that one.
Second of all, there's always vim or pico :P hehehe j/k but word is that
WordPerfect 6.0 is soon being ported to Linux... so *cross fingers* :)
L8rs!
by David L. Johnso » Wed, 04 Oct 1995 04:00:00
>: I'm looking for a free and relatively ok wordprocessor...Something
>: for X that'll use multiple fonts (like the megs of 'em on the cd),
>: sub/super script, normal B/U/I stuff, and the like....any help in finding
>: something is much appreaciated, thanks.
>: --
>: Nobody has more fun than an E gobbling kiddie out to have a good time. :)
>Well, first of all, i use IV (InterViews), the 'iv' disk set (2 1.44's) and it
>looks ALMOST like wp or word for windows... you might wanna try that one.
>Second of all, there's always vim or pico :P hehehe j/k but word is that
>WordPerfect 6.0 is soon being ported to Linux... so *cross fingers* :)
>L8rs!
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by Robe » Fri, 13 Oct 1995 04:00:00
: You might also try what was known as ``LyriX'', and has been re-named ``LyX''.
: It is a word-processor front-end to LaTeX, and is coming along very nicely,
: though not quite ready for release yet. Wait a little while for an
: announcement.
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OK - I need to know what file formats LyX(or IV) can import and export.
My problem is that I like to do all development under Linux, but my
contract requires that I produce documentation in MS "WORD" format.
So I would be a happy camper if I could find a LINUX word processor that
can import and export some "rich" file format that MS Word knowns about,
eg, so I can import a draft from a colleague who used "MS-WORD-VISO"
for creating figures, then I can change the figures and export back to
an MS-WORD format so my colleage can make more changes via "VISIO".
Is such a capability extant or planned for any Linux word processor?
Thanks!
Robert
by David L. Johnso » Sun, 15 Oct 1995 04:00:00
EZ (part of the auis toolkit) has a richtext conversion utility, but I
don't know how good it is. I think xword is planning conversion to
richtext, but they have a long way to go. Last version I saw converted
to TeX by dumping all font and other special information.
I know of wp2latex, which does what you think it does, to an extent.
But it only goes one way, as should be obvious.
Each of these packages has its own set of capabilites, and it is nearly
impossible to translate among them. The only exception is translation
into TeX, since anything can be done in TeX.
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So I'd heard about this Linux thing - let's face it, you can't spend
any more than a year online and NOT hear about it unless you're under
some cybernetic rock - and always felt I ought to give it a try at
some point. Picked up the friendly yellow 'For Dummies' book which
came with three CDs of RH7.0. Lots of nice hand-holding throughout the
install process (which got me safely through a major glitch when the X
installer, starting up reasonably enough in a no-risk 640x480, got the
screen geometry totally wrong and was illegible, and pointed me in the
right direction for LOADLIN when lilo couldn't cope with Linux being
at the back end of a big drive) and I soon got into the OS. Got it
online, no worries. Well, this is nice, I said to myself, but
eventually I largely forgot about the system lurking at the other end
of my drive and returned through force of habit to Windows95.
But not willing to just plain give up (there's a principle involved,
dammit!) I sent off for the RH7.2 CDs when it came out. Fifteen quid.
Well, bugger me sideways... this new KDE is seriously slick, it just
*feels* faster, smoother, the lot. I'd imagine a lot of the discussion
of new distributions on here centres on technical aspects of kernels
and so forth, but speaking as a Windows refugee fleeing the imminent
prospect of XP's Big Brother pirate protection, it's looking like
Linux can become a happy home.
So much so, in fact, that I'm planning on getting myself a new
computer in a year or so, and having whatever the latest RH Linux is
as the main OS. Bill's not seeing another penny if I can help it...
(he says, posting with a Hotmail address in a slightly embarrassed
tone)
Odds are a fair number of people reading had some input into this nice
new OS I'm using now, so I just have to say, thanks guys.
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