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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hunter.premier.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!38.8.16.2!psinntp!ncrgw2.ncr.com!ncrhub6!eurohub!ddvictor.dundee.NCR.COM!news From: 101325.3035@compuserve.com (Gary Thom) Subject: Re: Betting on Unix X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 153.73.1.236 Message-ID: <32fae2bd.3702093@153.73.1.19> Sender: news@ddvictor.dundee.NCR.COM (Ref news) Reply-To: 101325.3036@compuserve.com Organization: AT&T Global Information Solutions X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 08:13:28 GMT Lines: 34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157031 comp.os.linux.networking:67730 comp.os.linux.setup:96167 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5946 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2398 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52256 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266543 Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> wrote: >vss@shell2.ba.best.com (V.S. Senthilkumar) writes: > >> Tell me a cheap and good word processing application for unix? > >1) emacs + groff (preview with the -X option if using X). >2) emacs + [La]TeX > By good and cheap, I feel the origonal poster was looking for something along the lines of "Word", which appart from a few die-hards out there is almost a standard. In most companies I have worked for, which is quite a few as I'm a contractor, the common factor as far as word processing goes was that they all used Word, from 1.0 to 7.0! No matter what you was about emacs + (formatting tool) I cannot imagine having to teach the average secretary how to use emacs, let alone how to visualise what the document will look like when they have finished. They have all become too used to WYSIWYG. Unless *nix has an application that is as easy for the general public to use as Word, then there is very little chance of *nix becoming a viable office word-processing operating system. >Take your choice. The cost is an hour or three to generate and install, 0 >dollars. At that price you can use both. > >// marc I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. -Woody Allen