On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > stephen farrell wrote: > > 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: > > Do any of these import Word* or Wordperfect? I don't want to re-type > my resume. One of these days I'm going to have to reverse engineer a > Word to troff perl.
StarOffice imports word and wordperfect files and 9 or 10 others .. Exporting/saveas I havn't tried yet. > > > > > > > > > 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. <snip> a pan review <snip>. > > > > > > 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] . > > -- > ----------------------------------------- > Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Someday soon I really MUST find a way to > piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
