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From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:05:52 GMT
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Robert Kaiser (rob@charlie.sysbe.sysgo.de) wrote:
: In article <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com>,
: Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> writes:
: >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
: >
: Oh, come on! This just doesn't compare to WinWord.
A fact for which some of are extremely thankful. If emacs + LaTeX were
comprable to WinWord, I never would have finished several large projects,
and the smaller would have looked like hell and taken twice as long to
finish.
--
Grant Edwards | Microsoft isn't the | Yow! Kids, don't gross me
Rosemount Inc. | answer. Microsoft | off.. ``Adventures with
| is the question, and | MENTAL HYGIENE'' can be
grante@rosemount.com | the answer is no. | carried too FAR!