ms-word, was: Re: anti-word

[Steve Holmes]

If it is a circle, it is a vicious one. It's one thing to update the
original document and work it as a text doc in your favorite unix editor
but doing this destroys all formatting and styles originnaly placed with
the word processor, hence we need a word compatible word processor for
linuw.

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > Ok, but people also write in word in addition to reading in it when they're in windows.
>
> Greg: We're going in circles here. You need something like wv in order to
> read those Word files that people send out. You don't need to send them
> Word files in order for them to read what you write in plain text or in
> html, because they can perfectly well read your text or html using their
> Word application on Windows.
>
> Do you see the circle?
>  > Greg > >
> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:27:55PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > Because everyone sitting in Word can perfectly easily retrieve a .txt or
> > > .html without knowing they did it.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > >
> > > > Why do you say it isn't necessary to write word documents when that format is being used widely in the work place and academic settings today?
> > > > Greg
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:47:31AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Dave Hunt wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > ... It's called "antiword", ...   It
> > > > > > cannot write MS Word files.
> > > > >
> > > > > It isn't necessary to write MS-Word, it's only necessary to read it
> > > > > correctly. Users of Word can read text or HTML perfectly well.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -Dave
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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