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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.fast.net!news.pgh.net!usenet From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Word Processing Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:02:07 -0500 Organization: Dis- Lines: 29 Message-ID: <332E21CF.2781E494@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> References: <3321C1B5.41C67EA6@connectnet.com> <5g3irk$ju@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: w2xo.pgh.pa.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37338 Gunther Schadow wrote: > > "Kenneth M. Roberts" <kmr@connectnet.com> writes: > > >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. > > > >If I could get some decent WYSIWYG, I would never need Windows*. (Well, > >at least not at home, work is another story!) > This certainly isn't ideal, but I've been using Netscape! Yup... I use the Netscape "Gold" version with the HTML editor. It is by no means a full-featured word processor, but it will make a fairly nice-looking document with bold, underlining, italics, font sizing and all that. The 3.01 version has only 1 font easily available, but I believe the version 4 "communicator" has various fonts. The 3.01 version has some "wierdness", but nothing catastrophic. I haven't tried vers 4 yet. I use apsfilter and ghostview to print the output of the HTML document. These are both available in the ports directory, as is netscape. Not real fancy, but pretty good...and the document output format (HTML) is very portable. -Jim Durham