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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.94.215.18!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news3.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu (Dan Cross) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SALE!!SALE!!! Date: 2 Feb 1997 13:37:42 -0500 Organization: Penn State ECSEL Computer Laboratory Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5d2mtm$9sb@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu> References: <32ED8F7B.4F16@pacific.net.sg> <32f2eb42.2542545@news.earthlink.net> <hckohe4zeus.fsf@eto.ericsson.se> <5d0h2f$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34936 In article <5d0h2f$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >I have yet to see one that you could also drop onto a secretary's >computer. ApplixWare? WordPerfect? Granted, they aren't free, but our secretaries in the PSU mathematics department use them on their Sun's with no complaints... :-) Besides, they like exmh much better than Eudora. :-) >For me, using TeX or troff is fine. I love the flexibility, and the >nice output appearance. For a secretary, you can't get away with vi >or emacs or TeX or troff. I don't say you need WISYWING (it's useless >since the screen resolution is so much less than the printer >resolution). That is a correct general assumption, but some of our secretaries in the PSU mathematics department also did mathematical typesetting in LaTeX, quite successfully. They too, enjoyed the flexibility and power. As a general rule, troff was shunned as not having ``good enough'' output (hey, I'm not going to argue with a PhD mathematician about which sigma looks better...they look the same to me. :-). While you are correct in the general case, there ARE alternatives for UNIX which are powerful and easy to use. I understand that RedHat got with the Applix people to get them to port ApplixWare to Linux. I've wondered if it would run under Linux emulation on FreeBSD, but I have not yet tried (basically since I've yet to see the RedHat version, only for the SPARC, but it IS out there...). - Dan C.