At 09:14 PM Thursday 4/24/2008, David Hobby wrote: >Max Battcher wrote: >... > > YMMV, but for me there I get a huge dissonance from OO.org and many of > > the things that I rely on in Office simply cannot be found. Not to > > start a flame war, but I could probably name a bunch of little pet >... > >Max-- > >It may well be a matter of what features one is looking >for. I last used Open Office for editing 150 pages of >notes for a math class. It wasn't really worth the effort >to do it in TeX, but I did need a lot of symbols.
I guess I will have to try it, then . . . >When I've tried this kind of thing in MS-Word, it was >quite frustrating. Every installation seemed to (not) >have different symbols, and often what looked fine on >the screen would print with lots of empty squares. >I'm sure there's a way to get MS-Word to behave properly, >but I have better things to do. That sounds like the problem could be with what fonts are installed on different machines . . . perhaps?? >With Open Office, I downloaded and installed, and it >worked perfectly ten minutes later. Since then, I've >never found a feature I wanted that it lacked. > > ---David > >GCU Well worth the price . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
