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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!hammer.uoregon.edu!zephyr.texoma.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!128.138.240.25!boulder!ucsub.Colorado.EDU!weissjp From: weissjp@ucsub.Colorado.EDU (Candide) 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 Subject: Re: Word vs Latex Followup-To: 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 Date: 21 Mar 1997 05:28:49 GMT Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5gt6ah$5mn@lace.colorado.edu> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ffg7n$c69$1@mars.mcs.net> <5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com> <01bc29e6$f20ce700$0b9e32ca@development1> <5fn30b$heo@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <01bc347f$ad67e750$4d6cb4c3@trischas> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsub.colorado.edu NNTP-Posting-User: weissjp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:165961 comp.os.linux.networking:72964 comp.os.linux.setup:103949 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6440 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2872 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:57464 VB (vb@ulm.netsurf.de) wrote: : > One of the disgusting things I found working w/ Word with other people : > was that they _didn't_ do such things. They did stuff like hitting the : > return twice to put a space between paragraphs -- ending up with blank : > paragraphs to cause the spacing -- rather than setting the paragraph : > style to have inter-paragraph spaces. And I found places where for : > headings they didn't use the proper heading style (which would take : > care of things like not breaking the page between the heading and the : > following paragraph), but instead just wnet to the menu bar and changed : > the fontsize and emboldened it. [snip] : Where is the Office for Linux? Not even Star Office! : Let's work on it... : VB. Two references for ya: First, for Linux word processing, check out LyX. The homepage is: http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html As for making "Office for Linux," have a look at the KDE. At the moment, they're working on overall environment and interface stuff, but they have ties to LyX, and to a drawing program called Colia. No one's working on a spreadsheet yet, though, so maybe you could do that. ;) Anyway, check out their website at: http://www.kde.org/ -- -Candide [weissjp@ucsub.colorado.edu] http://ucsub.Colorado.EDU/~weissjp/Home.html CDA Violation: "Protect Your Rights! Tell those SHITHEADS in Congress to stop fucking with our freedom of speech!"