On 06 Feb 2008, Dan H. wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:29:40AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord? > > > > After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it > > seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really > > chugging on dealing with my document which was a mere 25 pages of prose > > so far. > > Yeah, same here. It's probably been 2 years that I tried AbiWord, but my > main impression was just "sluggish". Very unresponsive. Although, in > principle, nobody can type or read as fast as the most lardy app can swallow > or choke up text, the "feel" just isn't right. > > OOo is bog-slow when starting up (and it does nameserver lookups, WTF for? I > noticed recentyl when my NS was down), but after that it gets tolerable. > > Still a snail when compared to M$ Office on the same machine. > > --D.
Why has no one in this thread mentioned Lyx? I've just used it to produce two books for Lulu and have found it good for that purpose. But I don't use it to produce the actual text; for that I use (g)vim. Once the text is more or less as I want it I then import it into Lyx for working up into the right format. Incidentally, a tip for anyone who is thinking of using Lulu: you can upload your file as postscript, which obviates all the messing about trying to produce an acceptable pdf file. But for some reason Lulu doesn't advertise this option. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
