RE: [Sheflug] Re: Open Office

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
> My colleagues mostly _use_ MS Office, but
>they _envy_ LaTeX.

 Excuse my ignorance, but is LaTex not like assembler?

 Complete pain in the behind until you get to grips with it (which takes a
while), and then stunningly useful once you have?

 I've not been over joyed with Star Office or AbiWord, but then again, I 
haven't
sat down and knocked off a document from scratch in a few weeks/months. I have
usually only editted existing Word docs - and it does seem a little slow.

 Dunno, guess I should poke AbiWord somemore if everyone doesn't have any 
issues
with it.

 Still, at the moment, if I really want to use Word, I have a 40Mb harddrive
lying around with Win 3.1 and Word 2 on it. It *screams* along on a 486 
machine.
 Might not be stable, it might not be pretty, but boy, it's quick!

 If AbiWord could do what Word 2 does, and not bomb, I'd be happy.

 Still, I tend not to bother with Office packages. I must be the only person 
who
is content with just printing ASCII (OK, I admit, I also filter it through
Ghostscript) :-)

 Baz.

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