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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Couple of "gotchas" for NCR and Diamomd Stealth64 users
Date: 2 Sep 1995 15:14:03 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Message-ID: <429sbr$5v8@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
References: <424cfc$gvb@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <426bsp$6ur@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <428idn$ulf@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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In article <428idn$ulf@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote:
:
:The real advantage of Windows fax is that it is hooked
:to the printer drivers so I can do a spiffy MS Word doc
:with pics and all and then preview it and then send
:it via fax. To my knowledge there is no WYSIWYG word
:processor for FreeBSD. So the real reason is not
:the fax but the fact that I can send text and graphics
:direct from Word. As soon as there is a decent GUI word
:processor for FreeBSD which can incoporate pics and
:presumably produce PS file which can then be sent to the
:fax I'll use it and wipe the whole DOS partition.
TeX/LaTeX is the ultimate geek typesetting system. I went out and
bought Leslie Lamport's book on LaTeX2e, and browsed through it while
on the bus or during a coffee break or whenever. It took me about an
hour of fiddling to learn how to typeset any mathematical equation I
could find, change style sheets to suit manuscripts requirements by
any of the major scientific journals, and to include tables and
PostScript figures. I imagine it will take another day of playing to
discover automatic citation, footnoting and index tabulation. ;-)
For the work involved, the quality of output far exceeds any word
processor I have seen to date. xdvi is a great document previewer,
with multiple zoom levels and anti-aliased display so that text is
still readable even at 25% actual size. dvips exists to convert .dvi
files to PostScript, and can pipe it directly into another program
(lpr, hylafax, whatever).
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org