Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-08 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:28:00 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll to the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook. CTRLEND works like a charm also. It is amazing what people will bitch at. The same

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 08 November 2008 13:55, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:28:00 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll to the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook. CTRLEND works like a charm

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-08 Thread RW
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:25:12 +0200 Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2008 13:55, Jerry wrote: The best response to the issue of Outlook and top-posting I've seen recently was on the London Perlmongers mailing list ... The last I checked, cursor keys worked in

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-08 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 16:40:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Some people argue that the cursor should start-off at the top because you should start by removing superfluous quoted text before bottom posting. If only that were true. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you know that for the

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Al Plant
FBSD1 wrote: Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Frank Staals
FBSD1 wrote: Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:37:21 +0100, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well not realy solution for the problem you mentioned. But if you have a bit of a programming background you may want to take a look at TeX/LaTeX for you documents. I know it may be like using a cannon to kill a fly

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:51:06AM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry Ditch Outlook and use Evolution or Thunderbird or KMail or hell anything . .

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-07 Thread Daniel Howard
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:51:06AM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry Ditch

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread mdh
OpenOffice.org 3. There's a port. - mdh --- On Thu, 11/6/08, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recommendation word processer for xfce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:40 PM Looking for word

RE: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread FBSD1
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: recommendation word processer for xfce OpenOffice.org 3. There's a port. - mdh --- On Thu, 11/6/08, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recommendation word processer for xfce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:01 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. There is a package available. I installed it yesterday. Look at the ftp

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. Please don't top-post. OpenOffice packages are available via the FreeBSD FTP sites. -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread John Nielsen
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recommendation word processer for xfce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:40 PM Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output

RE: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread FBSD1
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Glen Barber Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: recommendation word processer for xfce On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:01 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7 .1-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) Where did you get the package from or what name did you use

RE: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread FBSD1
Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sahil Tandon Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:18 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendation word

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry You could disable include original message. Or use better software. -- Glen Barber ___

RE: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread joeb
On Thursday 06 November 2008, FBSD1 wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. Take a look at abiword. ***

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry You could disable include original message. Or use better software. Or just scroll down the to bottom of the message before typing anything.

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-06 Thread Ross Cameron
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry Ditch Outlook and use Evolution or Thunderbird or KMail or hell anything ___