Tempting thread. >From my limited experience, I'd say that a WYSIWYG word processor is fine for small stuff say a letter, a poster, a notice or something like that but when you actually have to do a report or a book, things like LaTeX (haven't used pure TeX myself yet), <shudder> troff are the right stuff. TeXmacs is pretty okay when it comes to small stuff - ps, pdf etc. etc.
Openoffice is not bad from what I know and it definitely deserves more that "it sucks". I have to regularly deal with documents from people who haven't seen open formats and Openoffice has managed to open each and every one of them without any problems. Just a small thing I noticed recently. I had a ppt file that was 23 MB long. Opened it in Openoffice and then saved it in it's native format and voila !!! it was just 12 MB in size. Opened faster, same animations etc. etc. As for antiword... Amazing piece of software, even manages to render tables using |s and stuff. Really neat. Can convert word stuff into ps too. wv is pretty nice too from what I hear. Converts word stuff into HTML (among other formats) pics included. If M$ stabilised it's formats, we'd have many better products. They keep on changing them and the Free software/Open source community has endless trouble. On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:16:17PM +0530, Mario Michael da Costa assembled some asciibets to write: : Shridhar Daithankar [linux-list] <20/06/02 11:33 +0530>: : > On 20 Jun 2002 at 8:41, Arvind wrote: : > : > > openoffice sucks. its been always slow and painful to use. : > > evaluate koffice or abiword, maybe, that might change ur mind. : > : > Openoffice definitely does not sucks.. If you are talking : > about long startup time, you have to live with it for couple : > of more years. : : infact it is a really neat piece of software. saying that it sucks is -- No wonder Clairol makes so much money selling shampoo. Lather, Rinse, Repeat is an infinite loop! ~noufal ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
