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Re: Don't Be Soft On Microsoft



On Thu, 15 May 1997, Omer Zak wrote:
 
> On Wed, 14 May 1997, Amos Shapira wrote:
 
> > Omer Zak <xlacha1@wicc.weizmann.ac.il> wrote:
> > |A good freeware WYSIWYG wordprocessor is needed.
> > |(Amos, you told me in the dinner that emacs has WYSIWYG capabilities.  
> > |But I didn't ask you then whether it is possible to print from emacs and 
> > |retain the graphical attributes - does it have postscript backend or 
> > |whatever?)
> > 
> > Did I?  I must have been drunk.  The closest that gets to WYSIWYG in
> > emacs is Xemacs, I suppose.  You probably talked to someone else.
> 
> Either you were drunk or it was a case of "broken phone" (a special 
> computer virus which thrives on Solaris environments, and which happened 
> to infect Eli Marmor's laptop, and whose effect is to promise WYSIWYG at 
> any excuse).  So you actally said something and when I finally read what 
> was being summarized, I read something else.

  I don't know about Eli's laptop virus, but there are several WYSIWYG
wordprocessors/editors on Linux -but none based on emacs-.

  Applixware from Red Hat http://www.redhat.com.  Never mind the mailer,
but the wordprocessor and spreadsheet are quite good.

  The Wordperfect+NExS bundle from Caldera seems also reasonable, though
a bit pricey. http://www.calera.com

  I tried the Corel Office for Java and that too worked ok for a demo and
is very promising.

  StarOffice 3.1beta4 is available for free but in binaries only from
sunsite.  http://www.stardiv.com/staroffice/news/int_linux.html
  The home page at http://www.stardiv.com/staroffice/ promises a Java
version.

  On the freeware cum sources side, there is LyX that uses TeX/LaTeX as
document format: several TeX packages are integrated into the
point-and-click interface of LyX, most notably the math package AMSTeX.
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html
  Adding TeX--XeT or other Hebrew macro packages should be possible

  SciTeXt looks good and is Java-based
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~SciTeXt 


alex



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