At Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:02:35 +0000 (GMT) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Robert Heller wrote: > > > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > > From: Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news? > > > > 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. > > Are you aware of lyx, a front end to Latex? Yes. Never used it. I use a *plain text editor* to edit LaTeX source. Always have and always will. > > I used it to create the Kickstart User Guide in PDF format. > > LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the > ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in > world-class support for creation of mathematical content > (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured > documents like academic articles, theses, and books. In > addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference > list and index creation come standard. But you can also use > LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film > script. A broad array of ready, well-designed document > layouts are built in. > > LyX is released under a Free Software/Open Source license, > runs on Linux/Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X, and is available > in several languages. > > It's in the EPEL repo. > > Name : lyx > Arch : i386 > Version : 1.6.6.1 > Release : 1.el5 > Size : 9.9 M > Repo : installed > Summary : WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) document processor > URL : http://www.lyx.org/ > License : GPLv2+ > Description: LyX is a modern approach to writing documents > : which breaks with the > : obsolete "typewriter paradigm" of most other > : document preparation systems. > > Keith > -- 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