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Re: whay am I still using windows



On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shachar Tal wrote:

> 
> People, at least fix the bad english at the subject when you reply... :)
> 
> Shachar.

As far as I'm concerned there are far worse mistakes in the subject line
than just grammar. You're supposed to start with the bigger mistakes when
fixing something. It's supposed to be more efficient ;)

> umpa loompa: getting personal

No way I'm getting personal, unless you feel like a Pentium running L95
(in this case, I feel pity for you ;).  BTW if you do such large things,
then how come you don't use a dosemu with your favorite Hebrew text editor
under a Linux session, with another one to do markup (m4 ? ;), and
Netscape open to view the results on a 3rd session. Because that's how one
works usually (am i wrong). I did work like that with Latex documents, and
it's way cool.

You type plain text (no markup) and the 6 macros you use most often at a
terminal, with spell checking and all that, and on the graphical output
you get the whole shebang, with company logo, navigation bar etc added
automagically, plus automagical site index file and so on and so on...
(NB: I used an awk script to do markup, not m4). The path was: text editor
-> speller (ispell) -> awk script -> latex -> xdvi. The awk script also
generated info for later indexing.

Since the editor need not be under Linux, you can use what you want
(Notepad or Write from Hebrew W3.11 ? ;).

It's all a question of setting it up right for your job. All these
complaints come from people who expect Linux (and KDE) to be a drop-in
replacement for L95, except it's supposed to be free. Things don't work
that way in real life, and an emulation of something that is mostly worse
than the real thing (and newer, and buggier, and slower - but not always). 

As Ira has said, Linux, which is an OS and not a GUI, has the job to run
steadily and fast, and it does.  What you make it do, is another thing. 

As to desktop publishing related things, the WYSWYG editors are by far
the poorest at generating repeatable patterns, correctly aligned
paragraphs and logos and giving a site a uniform common denominator. This
also applies to web documents, as you know ;)

So if you REALLY want it then you can do it and it works, but if you are
looking for a drop-in replacement, just let it work the way they like it
at the office. After all using Linux is not about trying to get fired ;)

Peter