Murray Taylor wrote:
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Garrett Cooper
Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 4:28 AM
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Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will
FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenOffice in OSX still isn't that great either because there
still isn't a native (Aqua) build.
I suspect the NeoOffice folks would be surprised to hear that :)
Yes >_>.. I mean that the latest and greatest version of OOo isn't
available for Aqua native yet. It's going to take another
year to port,
as someone has claimed already.
There was a big leap in terms of functionality from 1.x vs
2.x in OOo,
but then again considering that the OP was asking about
running Office
98 (:D..), I don't think he'd mind running the 1.x version binaries.
-Garrett
As the original poster wants to write books .... may I suggest that he
use
a text editor and then a typesetter combination rather than any form of
WYSIWYG wordprocessor.
IE use (insert favourite text editor here) then use the LaTeX / Tetex
port
to actually properly format the material as a book.
Yes there is a learning curve here, but the end result is all
over a wordprocessed attempt.
mjt
Good point. I fully agree with Murray, because I've found many WYSIWYG
editors to have large shortcomings when it comes to writing properly
formatted documents. I still have to fight Word 2003 to not erase
bullets in a larger document I maintain, at its own whim, not mine. I
can't begin to imagine what Publisher 98 would be like (ew..).
LaTeX works wonderfully for regularly written documents and Texinfo for
technical documents or procedure manuals. Then for writing web
documents, you can always invest some time in just learning VIM +
colorizing the output, or maybe invest in a WYSIWYG HTML editor, and
touch up little things here and there. Bluefish works wonderfully for
this purpose I've discovered.
-Garrett
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