interesting experiment.

[Toby Fisher]

On Sat, 18 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

>
> > Is there a text editor, that has macro features, Regular expressions, the
> > ability to save in Windows/Mac/Unix format, etc?
>
> What is Mac format? I've never heard of that. And what is Windows
> format?

Just taking a guess here.

As you probably know, DOS/Windows uses a cr lf combination for a newline
character.  Ok now bare with me on the next bit cos I always get confused
here.  Linux/unix ohnly uses an lf character.  Well, the Mac uses a cr
character.  Macs have a hard enough time dealing with cr lf combinations,
I know, I know, that's cos they're broken, but there it is.   Also, the
hfs file syst em is kind of weird, that's why access to it is still marked
as experimental in the Linux kernel, though it's been around since I think
2.2 or even late 2.0 days.

Then again, he could just be talking about MS Office/Claris Works.

 > > Is there powerful text editing, formatting,
scripting?
Of course > there is. Far more powerful than in Windows or Mac. There are
> probably too many to mention, actually. Linux/Unix has the
> proprietary world beat hands down on this one.

Oooo yeh, I mean, my Slackware distriburtion comes with at least 4 for the
console, and I think there are some more optional ones as well.

> You certainly don't need them to communicate with anyone, or to
> print out lovely reports, or design lovely e-content for on line
> publishing, etc.

As a matter of interest, where would you recommend as a good place to
start my education into latex?  I mean, which part of the docs? *smile*


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