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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 15:04:24 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:14:29PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thanks for that little rant; it made my day. I recently
>>> switched from mozilla to fire
On Sunday 27 January 2002 01:35 pm, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote:
>
> WP8 retail edition (with more fonts than the discontinued free download
> version) can be had via eBay for a few bucks. I purchased a copy
> recently and am waiting for it to arrive. Meanwhile VMware lets me work
> with a current
ben wrote:
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:18 am, Kent West wrote:
[snip]
Why oh why won't Corel release the old DOS version into the open source
world?
[snip
Yes, but I don't particularly care if the DOS version is *made
available*; I'd like it to be *made available as open source*. Then
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:18 am, Kent West wrote:
[snip]
> >>
> >>Why oh why won't Corel release the old DOS version into the open source
> >>world?
> >
[snip
>
> Yes, but I don't particularly care if the DOS version is *made
> available*; I'd like it to be *made available as open source*. Th
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:29:18PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I
| > don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a
| > center environment. Nope, I just tried it. \begin{cent
sorry to chime in so late, but I normally skip rants:)
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:09:00AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:57:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In TeX you should write
> >
> > lefthand string\hfilcenter string\hfilrighthand string
>
> I don't think
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a
bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up.
For those who don'
It's also unclear why the tabular environment is "heavy" or "overkill":
\begin{tabular}{lcr}
lefthand string & centre string & righthandstring\\
\end{tabular}
ap
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:51:11 - (GMT), (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 24-Jan-02 Dan Griswold wrote:
> > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I
> >> don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a
>
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:57:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In TeX you should write
>
> lefthand string\hfilcenter string\hfilrighthand string
I don't think that would work properly in cases where the left and
right sections are of different lengths. My understanding of how
\hfil works
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:51:11AM -, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 24-Jan-02 Dan Griswold wrote:
> > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I
> >> don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a
> >> center environment.
On 24-Jan-02 Dan Griswold wrote:
> dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I
>> don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a
>> center environment. Nope, I just tried it. \begin{center} starts a
>> new paragraph (or a
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I
> don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a
> center environment. Nope, I just tried it. \begin{center} starts a
> new paragraph (or at least a line))
>
The \tabular e
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:21:14AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
| On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:27:47AM -0500, dman wrote:
| > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:26:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| > | man(1) Manual pager utils man(1)
| > That is a tabular layout. You can
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:27:47AM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:26:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> | On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> | > And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
> | > Justified text all on the same line,
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:17:45 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:43:12 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:45:39 -0600
> > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:39:26 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:43:12 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:45:39 -0600
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:39:26 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:> > john wrote:
> > >
> > > > csj wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >
> > >
> > > So
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:39:26 -0600
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> john wrote:
>
> > csj wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>The level of control you want for your documents is better served by a
> >>dedicated DTP program like Ventura. The DOS version (running IIRC a
> >>run-time version of the
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:45:39 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:39:26 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:> > john wrote:
> >
> > > csj wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >
> > So what would you recommend as a DTP program in Linux?
>
> There's one in Freshmeat. Don
i would like too throw my 2 cents in here, i started with lyx as a gui
for latex, just installed the deb ( after wrestling with dselect ;) and
am very happy with lyx, there were some post deb install issues that i
had to fix, i am new to debian and dont want to track down the
maintainer, so i
on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:59:09PM -0800, D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I will go WAY out on the LIMB here and say, I have a
> WordPerfect8.tar.bz2 that I will share with anyone that wants it...
I suspect that's the WP8 that _was_ distributed free for GNU/Linux. I
suspect Corel's license doesn
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:39:26 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> john wrote:
>
> > csj wrote:
[snip]
>
>
> So what would you recommend as a DTP program in Linux?
There's one in Freshmeat. Don't know how good it is, though.
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 08:04 pm, you wrote:
[snip]
> FYI, The book version is the personal edition, which does not have all
> the features of the full edition , WP8 ver 8.1 is the version with all
> the features included. This is included i nthe Corel Linux Deluxe
> editions, which can be had
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 05:06 pm, ben wrote:
> On Thursday 17 January 2002 05:57 pm, Douglas Hespe wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:07:38AM -0800, ben wrote:
> > > where exactly in Australia? I've got family over there, down
> > > under there,
On Thursday 17 January 2002 05:57 pm, Douglas Hespe wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:07:38AM -0800, ben wrote:
> > where exactly in Australia? I've got family over there, down under there,
> > i mean. where, as in vendor outlets, can it be bought? and which version
> > of wp is available?
>
> Hi
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:07:38AM -0800, ben wrote:
>
> where exactly in Australia? I've got family over there, down under there, i
> mean. where, as in vendor outlets, can it be bought? and which version of wp
> is available?
>
Hi Ben,
In Sydney there is a place called Basement Books
john wrote:
csj wrote:
The level of control you want for your documents is better served by a
dedicated DTP program like Ventura. The DOS version (running IIRC a
run-time version of the GEM desktop environment) was fast, pretty fast
even when run on an ancient XT. But I share the WP crowd's
csj wrote:
>
> I beg to disagree with the crowd. Its features aside, WP must be one of
> the most vicious pieces of software I've handled, next perhaps only to
> vi(cious ;8-). I'm not particularly demanding WRT ease of use: just
> something you can start and exit without reading the manual. (I c
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:33:21 -0600
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ross Burton wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 15:26, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> >>
> >>>And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
>
On 17-Jan-02 dman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:25:32PM +, Ted Harding wrote:
>
>| I'd like to suggest giving 'groff' a try.
>
>| I reckon it's well up with TeX, and better in some respects.
>
>
> Can you provide a list of the tradeoffs between [gnt]roff and (La)TeX?
>
> I've starte
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
>
> I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source
> software that did what it does.
>
Kent,
Here in Australia you can pick up remaindered copies of
_WordPerfect_for_Linux_ for about AU$20 (~US$10). This has th
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:25:32PM +, Ted Harding wrote:
| I'd like to suggest giving 'groff' a try.
| I reckon it's well up with TeX, and better in some respects.
Can you provide a list of the tradeoffs between [gnt]roff and (La)TeX?
I've started with LaTeX; read lshort and now have Lamp
The 2 of you install ssh. Then, scp is your friend. Of course, both of you
better be on high-speed connections!
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:59:09 -0800 (PST) "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will go WAY out on the LIMB here and say, I have a
> WordPerfect8.tar.bz2 that I will share with anyone
Thus spake D.:
> I will go WAY out on the LIMB here and say, I have a
> WordPerfect8.tar.bz2 that I will share with anyone
> that wants it... If that's legal... I believe that I
> downloaded it from the Peanut Linux web page. I have
> not installed it on Debian so I can not say that it
> will work
I will go WAY out on the LIMB here and say, I have a
WordPerfect8.tar.bz2 that I will share with anyone
that wants it... If that's legal... I believe that I
downloaded it from the Peanut Linux web page. I have
not installed it on Debian so I can not say that it
will work.. My delima is how do I ge
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...] it's just that WP's method was so easy. Type your
> text, hit Ctrl-F7, type the centered text, hit Alt-F7, type
> the rightmost text, and you're done.
It's easy in LaTeX too ...
man(1) \hfill Manual pager utils \hfill ma
On 16-Jan-02 Kent West wrote:
>>>On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
>>>
And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a
bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up.
dman wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:35:44PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| dman wrote:
|
| >On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:26:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| >| On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| >| > And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
|
On 16-Jan-02 Kent West wrote:
>> Go with LaTeX. It works great. It isn't too hard to start learning,
>> as long as you let go with of trying to control the _exact_ appearance
>> of each letter on the page.
>
> But that's just it; I need to be able to control the _exact_ appearance
> of each lett
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:19:49 -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
>Kent West wrote:
>
>> But that's just it; I need to be able to control the _exact_ appearance
>> of each letter.
>
>Why? I understand wanting to be able to set up paragraph styles with
>options for intra-line spacing, kerning, and so on, b
on Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:19:49AM -0800, Craig Dickson insinuated:
> > But that's just it; I need to be able to control the _exact_
> > appearance of each letter.
>
> Why? I understand wanting to be able to set up paragraph styles with
> options for intra-line spacing, kerning, and so on, but why wou
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:35:44PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| dman wrote:
|
| >On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:26:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| >| On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| >| > And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
| >| > Justified
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:27 am, Lance Simmons wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:19:49AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > Reveal Codes is not the sort of thing that your average secretary can
> > understand easily.
>
> I know a lot of administrative assistants, and many, many of them long
>
dman wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:26:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| > And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
| > Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a
| > bunch of
Ross Burton wrote:
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 15:26, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a
bunch of spaces to get eve
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:27:22PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:19:49AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> >
> > Reveal Codes is not the sort of thing that your average secretary can
> > understand easily.
>
> I know a lot of administrative assistants, and many, many of the
dman wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:10:45PM +0100, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote:
| Le 2002.01.16 00:51, dman a écrit :
| > What!? This doesn't make sense to me at all. Left, Center, and Right
| > Justified describes how the alignment of the line is. How can a line
| > be aligned 3 ways simulta
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:19:49AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
>
> Reveal Codes is not the sort of thing that your average secretary can
> understand easily.
I know a lot of administrative assistants, and many, many of them long
for the days of Reveal Codes. They still love WordPerfect 5.1, and
r
Kent West wrote:
> But that's just it; I need to be able to control the _exact_ appearance
> of each letter.
Why? I understand wanting to be able to set up paragraph styles with
options for intra-line spacing, kerning, and so on, but why would you
need to be able to change these things on a lett
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I know it's not appropriate to rant, especially off-topic, but I just gotta!
I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source
software that did what it does.
And being ab
dman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
| Justified text all on the same line,
What!? This doesn't make sense to me at all. Left, Center, and Right
Justified describes how the alignment of
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 15:26, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
> > Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a
> > bunch of spaces to get everything to
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:26:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| > And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
| > Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a
| > bunch of spaces to get e
"Karsten M. Self" writes:
> Note that Corel _did_ (does?) have a Unix-native version, including a
> console mode (not available, AFAIK, in the WP8 which was made generally
> available for GNU/Linux). This would seem to be the program you're
> looking for. What the availability of this program i
WP 5.1 (or was it 5.2) rocked.
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020116 09:26]:
> Can you show an ASCII-art version of what it would look like?
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| Left Center Right |
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
> Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a
> bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up.
For those who don't grok this, look at th
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:10:45PM +0100, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote:
| Le 2002.01.16 00:51, dman a écrit :
| > What!? This doesn't make sense to me at all. Left, Center, and Right
| > Justified describes how the alignment of the line is. How can a line
| > be aligned 3 ways simultaneously? Perha
Le 2002.01.16 00:51, dman a écrit :
> What!? This doesn't make sense to me at all. Left, Center, and Right
> Justified describes how the alignment of the line is. How can a line
> be aligned 3 ways simultaneously? Perhaps you mean to have a 3-column
> section where each column has separate alig
on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I know it's not appropriate to rant, especially off-topic, but I just gotta!
>
> I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source
> software that did what it does.
>
> For example, Reveal Codes, and
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> I know it's not appropriate to rant, especially off-topic, but I just gotta!
>
> I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source
> software that did what it does.
>
Ditto to the entire rant. I still have W98, in order
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (Yes, I could purchase the commercial version of Corel Office, but a
> Wine-ified version just doesn't seem kosher, not to mention that this
> would have to come out of my own pocket since the workplace doesn't
> smile friendly yet on Linux, so for now I'm w
Kent West wrote:
I know it's not appropriate to rant, especially off-topic, but I just
gotta!
I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source
software that did what it does.
For example, Reveal Codes, and being able to find and remove that
offending font change, or table
> I know it's not appropriate to rant, especially off-topic, but I
> just gotta!
>
> I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source
> software that did what it does.
i sorta miss wordperfect too. though wordperfect office 2000
was virtually unusable for me.last time i used it,
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
| Justified text all on the same line,
What!? This doesn't make sense to me at all. Left, Center, and Right
Justified describes how the alignment of the line is. Ho
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 13:55, Kent West wrote:
> I know it's not appropriate to rant, especially off-topic, but I just gotta!
>
> I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source
> software that did what it does.
I feel your pain :) I like, use WP8 for Linux. All I can say I have
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