-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 18:05, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> I use XEMacs daily to produce LaTeX documents. I have frequent need >> to search my archives of material I have written in the past, and I >> use grep for this purpose. It is difficult for me to imagine an >> advantage offered by OpenOffice which would compensate for the >> inability to make use of grep in searching my archives. > > I think it depends on what you're doing. TeX is awesome for writing > books and scientific papers. If you're writing a letter to Grandma, > though, OpenOffice is better suited. Using TeX for that is a bit like > driving a semi truck to the supermarket to pick up a bottle of milk.
Load that beast to write a simple letter? Or do some simple spreadsheet work? AbiWord and Gnumeric are *much* better at that task. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+tWZS9HxQb37XmcRAsmbAKCpjV+F0adDajobWg1+VZbTK7HS3wCgwEjq UyuW2tB5VF0bdGVCztOZiho= =RaH4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
