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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.stealth.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.89.123.24!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.ifmo.ru!mx.nsu.ru!not-for-mail From: fat@cnit.nsu.ru Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 07 Feb 1997 14:19:40 +0600 Organization: Novosibirsk State Univercity Lines: 38 Sender: fat@standalone Message-ID: <fatybd13u5f.fsf@standalone.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blackcat.cnit.nsu.ru X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.33 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156499 comp.os.linux.networking:67444 comp.os.linux.setup:95753 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5893 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2300 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52024 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266003 rob@charlie.sysbe.sysgo.de (Robert Kaiser) writes: > >> Tell me a cheap and good word processing application for unix? > > > >1) emacs + groff (preview with the -X option if using X). > >2) emacs + [La]TeX > > > Oh, come on! This just doesn't compare to WinWord. Yes, no comparison. emacs+LaTeX is soooo much better :). [skip] > I remember reading a GNU bulletin by Richard Stallman about seven > years ago. In his whishlist for new projects, the top item was a > WYSIWYG word processing system a la Word. Apparently, nobody > volunteered for it ever since. I guess it is more challenging for > a hacker to write a new OS :-(. Seriously, for people with hacker/programmer mentality YAFIYGI (You Asked For It - You Get It) tools like LaTeX are much more natural than WYSIWYG. So people with programmer mentality percept no need in such a thing and people w/o such mentality are unlikely to volunteer in any kind of free sw development. -- Cheers, Fat Brother. http://www.cnit.nsu.ru/~fat/ ************************************************************************** * In 1984 mainstream users were choosing VMS over UNIX. Ten years later * * they are choosing Windows over UNIX. What part of that message aren't * * you getting? * * Tom Payne *