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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!voskovec.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!lehi.kuentos.guam.net!news From: crobato@kuentos.guam.net 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: 9 Feb 1997 00:46:15 GMT Organization: Kuentos Lines: 42 Message-ID: <5dj6on$ops@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> 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> <32fae2bd.3702093@153.73.1.19> Reply-To: crobato@kuentos.guam.net NNTP-Posting-Host: hagi-89.kuentos.guam.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.9d - NLS Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156905 comp.os.linux.networking:67654 comp.os.linux.setup:96055 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5928 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2376 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52178 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266402 In <32fae2bd.3702093@153.73.1.19>, 101325.3035@compuserve.com (Gary Thom) writes: >Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> wrote: > >>vss@shell2.ba.best.com (V.S. Senthilkumar) 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 >> > >By good and cheap, I feel the origonal poster was looking for >something along the lines of "Word", which appart from a few die-hards >out there is almost a standard. In most companies I have worked for, >which is quite a few as I'm a contractor, the common factor as far as >word processing goes was that they all used Word, from 1.0 to 7.0! > >No matter what you was about emacs + (formatting tool) I cannot >imagine having to teach the average secretary how to use emacs, let >alone how to visualise what the document will look like when they have >finished. They have all become too used to WYSIWYG. > >Unless *nix has an application that is as easy for the general public >to use as Word, then there is very little chance of *nix becoming a >viable office word-processing operating system. > How about the WordPerfect that comes with Caldera? Or the StarOffice suite for Linux, which has a pretty good Word like clone (I've used it) called StarWrite. Rgds, Chris Famous People on the Day Windows 95 is Launched--- Neil Armstrong---"One Small Fortune for Bill Gates, One Giant Leap backward for Mankind." President Roosevelt---"This date shall live in infamy." *** crobato@kuentos.guam.net *** TKS for the Contributions.