Re: [Sheflug] Re: Newbie - H/W recommendations please

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sat, 12 May 2001, Richard Ibbotson wrote:

> Depends wot you want to do and why you want to do it.  Any old scrap
> will do but it might be that you might need Star Office.  Most people
> who haven't got a Phd in computing science need to use it or a
> similar office suite.  Other than Abiword it's difficult to find a
> Micro$sloth compatible office suite.  Koffice is very nice but it
> only saves in HTML or .txt format.

KWord has it's own format as well as importing MS Word (certain versions,
read www.wvware.org for more).
KSpread loads Excel, and saves CSV (interoperable format).
Killustrator is pretty good too.

> So, do you need a cracking good office suite or do you need to use vi
> or emacs to produce web pages ?  Do you want to spend three light
> years learning how to write it out in long hand when you can point
> and click and do it in a few seconds ?  As I do in fact.

There's a good point and drool web program? None I ever used. HTML isn't
the be all and end all of web publishing. To do it right you need more
complicated things like CGI scripts, inline scripting (PHP style),
stylesheets and XML. And I certainly never saw a GUI package that knew
XSLT. XEmacs and vim do though...


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