Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread pereira
Steve, I happen to write TeX with gedit, which is the standard ASCII editor that comes with Xubuntu. But, in earlier times I've used other ASCII editors, including VAX' edt and even punched cards, not editor at all. Whatever works. On the TeX end I used to use plain tex, but now I use latex.

[xubuntu-users] Authoring tools: Was Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:48:51 + Peter Flynn wrote: > On 01/13/2017 02:24 AM, pereira wrote: > > FWIW, I use Libreoffice whenever someone in the MS Windows world > > sends me a document in .doc or .docx format. So far I've had no > > problems with sending them back documents

Re: [xubuntu-users] shell tools

2017-01-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:59:34 -0500 pereira wrote: > Still, adding to the instructions how best to add the link to > whatever to $PATH http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/prepostpath.htm SteveT Steve Litt December 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st

Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread Peter Flynn
On 01/13/2017 02:24 AM, pereira wrote: > FWIW, I use Libreoffice whenever someone in the MS Windows world > sends me a document in .doc or .docx format. So far I've had no > problems with sending them back documents made by Libreoffice and > exported into docx (which actually tends to shorten the

Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread Len Philpot
On 01/13/2017 01:09 AM, David Walland wrote: > I've used Word since Word 2 in the early 90s ... You mean you never experienced Word 6 for DOS? :-) Actually it wasn't all that terrible, all things considered. Back in those days, I would have been pretty happy (in a DOS context) if I could've

Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread François P . Rotzinger
On 01/13/2017 02:28 AM, JMZ wrote: I'm writing an doctoral dissertation in LibreOffice. It's not a lightweight word processor. Documents can be saved in .docx for colleagues using Word. So far my colleagues haven't had difficulty reading LibreOffice composed files that are translated to