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Re: Don't Be Soft On Microsoft
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Doron Zifrony wrote:
> > A good freeware WYSIWYG wordprocessor is needed.
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> A good WYSIWYG wordprocessor is not enough. The problem is the need to
> be compatible with what other people use.
This is not a real problem with MS-Word, because it can save files in a
variety of formats. In particular, it should not be a too big deal to
convert from TeX to RTF format and vice versa (even though I don't know
if a filter was constructed for this purpose).
(Except, of course, for documents which link or embed other documents
using OLE technology.)
> WORD was the de-facto (I should say is) word processor standard.
> Not that it was flawless, or that it was the best word processor around,
> it was simply the most widespread one.
>
> Therefore, the word processor you refer to must, at least, be able to
> read and write WORD documents and offer similar facilities.
--- Omer
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