Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > > > > > Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a > > > "Debian Success Story". So, here it is > > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice > > > > Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word processor > > compared to Lyx? > > I tried StarOffice earlier today. The install is confusing > since after untarring everything, I couldn't find any documentation > which said what setup to run, etc. The spreadsheet seems quite > good, the math program looks quite confusing, the graphing > is good. The wordprocessor seems to be very slow and use > very small fonts, even for 12 point. And the style window > that hangs around in each program is a bit annoying. > > Anyone want to give a comparison with Applixware? > I'm considering buying Applixware because it is only $100 AUD > student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200 > for students I think, regularly nearly $500). >
You should also take a gander at wp 7 before you throw any money on the table. There is a beta at http://www.sdcorp.com/. I've never tried applixware, but I prefer wp7 to staroffice, and it's much better than wp 6 for linux, though quite reminiscent (hopefully they'll fix some things before the release, like the cheezy preferences button-box, and some remaining problems with font-rendering). I didn't care much for lyx. It didn't seem to offer an advantages over auctex/emacs/xdvi (which would probably be my wordprocessing platform of choice--these commercial offerings are mostly useful for when people send me Word6 smack). --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
