Re: Office suites...

[Sam Simpson <nospam [at] freenet.co.uk>]

Foz wrote:
>
> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
> OK, Windows is faulty, buggy, and not worth risking. But I need a
> word processor (High priority), spread sheet (low priority) and
> presentation package (optional). Now this is the difficult part. I
> dislike Word Perfect 8, Applix (the feel of these two packages
> makes me cringe), and Star Office (on a machine with 32Mb of
> ram?!?). AbiWord is (at the mo) refusing to work with my machine
> plus it is not quite finished, so I don't want to entrust my essays
> onto it at the moment. Now spreadsheets aren't really a problem,
> there are quite a few on SuSE 6.3, including a console based one.
> Does anyone know of a console based word processor? Or if not a
> WP that is small and useful. Then I can use Linux more often. and
> Windows NT less (3 BSOD yesterday, of which 2 then went to
> reboot without me asking...)
>
> Any suggestions are welcome... :-)
>
How about writing your stuff with text editor, then using something like
groff or tex to produce the finished item? Isn't this the way it's done
in the unix/linux world - text processing, rather than wordprocessing?

sam

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