At Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:10:41 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 14:42 -0500, m.roth at 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. > > mark > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments