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From: Borja Marcos <borjamar@sarenet.es>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Word Processing
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 19:34:07 +0100
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Kenneth M. Roberts wrote:
> 
> What are the options, free or commercial, for doing good word processing
> on FreeBSD?  Is lyx/LaTeX/TeX a good route?  Can WordPerfect run on
> FreeBSD?  Pointers to aquisition/configuration info appreciated.

	At least for me, LyX/LaTeX is the ideal situation. I don't 
enjoy formatting text and putting it "pretty" and it does all the 
work for me.

> If I could get some decent WYSIWYG, I would never need Windows*.  (Well,
> at least not at home, work is another story!)

	regarding WYSIWYG, do you really need it? I mean, the LyX approach
is more than enoguh. I don't really miss WYSIWYG.

	Borja.
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