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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!gdt!aber!fronta.aber.ac.uk!pcg From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Subject: Re: WYSIWYG Tools & other stuff In-Reply-To: pd@doc.ic.ac.uk's message of 27 Jun 1993 15: 45:47 +0100 Message-ID: <PCG.93Jun30231807@decb.aber.ac.uk> Sender: news@aber.ac.uk (USENET news service) Nntp-Posting-Host: decb.aber.ac.uk Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Organization: Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth References: <20c2ic$k8h@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> <20ih1vINN5s9@harpo.uccs.edu> <20kbqrINNa7l@oak41.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 22:18:07 GMT Lines: 24 >>> On 27 Jun 1993 15:45:47 +0100, pd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Philip Daniels) said: Essen> Does anyone know of any WYSIWYG word processors/Drawing tools for Essen> Net/386BSD (and XFree86), I currently have to resort to Word for Essen> Windows for this and I'de rather leave my machine booted Unix. I Essen> know about idraw (which is ok-ish), but are there any others? Philip> I use xfig on my Linux machine rather than idraw, I want to plug tgif, a very weel done drawing package, that handles PostScript especially well. Recently updated to 2.13PL2. Philip> simply because it's a lot faster I presume it doesn't use FP) Philip> except when drawing arcs. Skip dinner for a couple of weeks, save money, and get a math copro. Very useful -- with it outline (Type1) fonts under X become practical, and there are lots of free Type1 fonts. Philip> I think the best hope would lie in targeting niche markets, such Philip> as those for symbolic maths packages. I _want_ Mathemetica! What about Maxima, the freeware version of Macsyma? It should be rather OK. Available with AKCL from UTexas...