Word processing in linux

[Janina Sajka]

Not quite, Ann. Tyler could also use HTML which has long been able to
produce tables and other structural layout. It would be necessary to do
the HTML by hand, but that has its own significant educational reward.
And, it's an open, nonproprietary, platform agnostic document
specification--very much unlike Word. 

Somewhat more difficult to learn, but providing more layout control, is
latex, which is very well supported by Emacs.

Not only is this a good opportunity to learn how to produce good layout,
it's an opportunity to learn how to stand up for oneself and confront
authority in a constructive manner. If the school is demanding
submissions in Microsoft Word, then this kind of approach may be in
order.

n the other hand, if the requirement is to produce well reasoned and
produced content, HTML is certainly up to the task.


Ann Parsons writes:
> Hi Tylor,
> 
> Hmmmm, well there isn't much you can do right now.  Star Office
> requires X-Windows, and the Gnome desktop is not ready for prime-time
> yet.  You could do worse than to learn Emacs and LaTeX.  As for losing
> the formatting, that's part of the territory.  I'd write all my stuff
> in emacs, then transfer it to MSWord when I got to school.  You could
> do the final formatting there.  BTW, formatting has two T's, short
> vowel and word ending in ING.  Double T keeps the vowel short!  
> 
> Ann P.
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