Martin Skjöldebrand <shieldf...@gmail.com> writes: > On Monday 22 July 2013 13.51.04 lee wrote: >> >> LaTeX works great for what I'm doing, and I didn't bother to install LO >> on Fedora. Give it ten years or so, and LO might be usable. > > Works great is completely dependent on what you want to do. For daily writing > of office documents it requires an - for me - undefendable amount of fiddling > getting it setup properly, so no - LaTex is not an alternative.
Indeed, some things can be rather difficult to do with LaTeX and/or require going to such lengths that it's just so much easier to use something like LO. > However, I've seen other having reported crashes on dialog boxes, so it's a > bit weird no one here has had the same experience ... I might just be unlucky > I guess .... =( Perhaps you can try another version? IIRC they used to make some downloadable archives --- perhaps that works better what currently is in Fedora? > Otherwise LO works nicely, although I miss the ribbon interface from MS > Office > (I know, lots of people don't). I always missed the database part. -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
