> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Murray Taylor > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 7:28 PM > To: Garrett Cooper; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices,Will FreeBSD accept > Office 98 + Publisher? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Garrett Cooper > > Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 4:28 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [email protected] > > 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. >
When I wrote my book Addison Wesley used Quark internally, but required me to submit my manuscript -on paper-. They then retyped it, sent me the proofs (which had enormous numbers of typos in them) I corrected and sent back. I asked them if I gave them the manuscript in Quark source files if they would take that, (because I had access to a pirated copy of Quark and figured I would import what I had written my book in) and they would not. They required a paper manuscript. Thus, use whatever you want to write your book - if your going to get it published most likely your publisher will not be using what your using. Ted _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
