Word Perfect: in memorium

[Janina Sajka]

Decide between vim and emacs. Try them both and decide which of these two suits your personality best and learn to use that one. You'll be able to do everything you need to do--except print. You'll need latex for that.

Karen Lewellen writes:
> Now you have me a touch worried.
> One of the things i was looking forward to in Linux, a
> way to demonstrate its advantages over windows to
> companies for whom I work was word processing.
> Granted I do not use wordperfect 5.1, but 6.1 and later still in dos on
> this machine.
> I knew that there was a wordperfect for Linux out there, and am
> surprised that this requires windows.
> with more and more companies seeing the
> light where Microsoft is concerned,
> it may be worth suggesting to the project
> to consider revamping that already existing
> Linux edition for Linux only use.
> It is just not piratical in an office or even home office
> environment to use code instead of a program designed for this.
>  in my opinion at least.
> Karen
> 
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
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> > Hi Shane,
> >
> > There are "front ends" to TeX that simplify things somewhat, such
> > as latex and amstex. The latter is used by mathematicians, and
> > the American Mathematical Society (hence AMS-tex) has made it the
> > official tool for authors.
> >
> > No doubt that WP is easier for many things, but that convenience
> > comes at the cost, as you point out, of keeping a Windows box
> > around just for that purpose. It also comes at the cost of
> > locking your source documents into a proprietary format that
> > requires others to obtain a compatible processor to work with
> > your files.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Shane Wegner wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:57:55PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > > Lots of folks seem to be missing Word Perfect 5.1 pretty badly. I was
> > > > going to say they seem to pine for it, but that would be too bad!!!
> > >
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> > >
> > > One of the only remaining reasons I continue to have a
> > > Windows box is word processing.  You mention xml but afaik,
> > > xml doesn't know anything about fonts, emphasis, or even
> > > paragraphs.  In order to get all that, you have to write in
> > > a format like DocBook where you have to put everything
> > > inside <para tags.  That and pressing ctrl-b is a lot
> > > easier than writing <emphasis>my text here</emphasis>.  Oh
> > > and not to forget <itemisedlist> for bullets etc.
> > >
> > > I'm no xml expert but doesn't changing fonts and sizes
> > > involve writing stylesheets for the document in question.
> > > Maybe tex simplifies all this, I have never looked at it
> > > but imo, word processing still has its place and I haven't
> > > come across a good console app yet.
> > >
> > > S
> > >
> > >
> >
> > - --
> > The Moon is New
> > In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates.
> > My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175