At Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:10:41 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 14:42 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Barry Brimer wrote:
Just saw that today. I wonder if any of those assets is the superior
(and utterly badly marketed) WordPerfect. I thought Novell sold WordPerfect to Corel a long time ago.
Maybe - I've lost track. I'm still waiting for *anyone* to actually market the damn thing - I'd *buy* it (or rather, upgrade from 6.0.c for DOS).... I'll take it over Word *or* OO.o, any day.
It is nearly antique at this point.
Why do you call it that? What features are missing (and I haven't looked at a current copy in 10 years, btw). In general, I don't see *anything* I couldn't have done with the one from back then.
Recent OOo has worked extremely well for me; editing complex 200+ page documents with refereces, TOCs, & indexes. I've really become a fan of OOo starting in the 3.2.x series.
I guarantee WP 10-12 years ago could handle all that - most City of Chicago, and I think federal contracts, used to specify that documents be in WP format.
Besides, the files were always *much* smaller, and you could always beat it into submission with <alt><F3>, I think it was, and the way it revealed formatting... I was amazed that they didn't market that straight for designing web pages. AND not a single word processor or web page building I've seen writes them clean: both Word and OO.o write out *crap*, with font size and font and color and every damn thing on every single line, rather than only when something changes.
And I *still* use LaTeX. *I* won't touch a "word processor" (I tried OO *once* to create a mess-word version of my resume and it was a total disaster). I routinely create documents with something close to 1000 pages, with refereces, TOCs, & indexes, etc. Way back when I've created rather large documents with LaTeX *on a 10mhz 68000* with only 1Meg (yes *one* meg) of RAM (this was an Atari 1040ST running OS-9/68000). And a 40 *meg* hard drive. Talk about small footprint software. With pdflatex and tex4ht I can generate PDF directly and *clean* HTML. And both using Makefiles with automated tools. And TeX/LaTeX is open source.
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