Miles Fidelman wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
What do you need in a WP? Academic features (formal citations,
embedded graphics, TOC, index, etc), movie/theater formating,
something I haven't thought of?
Just to add another voice. Some of us have to exchange documents
with people who use Word - particularly in work settings, and features
like change tracking, integrating data from excel, and such are
important. Yes, you can do a lot of that in Open Office, but it never
works that cleanly. (I just left a company where half the company uses
Word, the other half uses OO, and pulling documents together always
turns out to be incredibly painful).
Thanks for getting us out of that thread. Yes, that's what we're
dealing with here. She use's Word at the office. I suppose she could
send an RTF home, but that's not really a good solution. She also isn't
allowed to install software on her machine for security reasons, so
getting her to use other software at work is impossible. I can't even
send her certain types of attachments because they get filtered out by
her mail server.
Personally, I don't need all of the features in either Word or Writer,
and as was suggested earlier, I might do with just a good text editor.
From what I have seen of Kword, it looks good. I've spent so much time
lately studying about GNU/Linux that I have had no time to write
anything more than e-mails, and that brings us back to the
IceDove/Thunderbird issue that started this.
What it boils down to is that I use GNU/Linux all the time. She uses it
when she wants to surf, but if she needs to do work, she reboots into
Windows and uses Word and Excel (in Dutch). I can't handle the Dutch
version of either one of them, so I was using OO on the Windows side
long before I made the full time switch to Linux.
We can live with this situation with the word processing, but the e-mail
is frustrating. I wonder if anyone can port IceDove to use QT instead
of GTK. The dialog boxes annoy me. I managed to get IceWeasel to use
the KDE File Dialog, but I don't know how to get IceDove to do it. I
also don't like how it forgets which format to show the messages in.
We all have pet peeves.
Joe
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