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

2017-01-14 Thread Peter Flynn
On 01/14/2017 07:02 PM, pereira wrote: > for TeX on a debian-based system do > sudo apt-get install texlive* You probably want to add an editor. texstudio is good, so is kile; both are debian packages. I use emacs, but that's just me :-) You will also need biber if you are creating documents

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

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 02:58:32PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 1/14/2017 12:13 PM, Chris Green wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:20:59AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.html > > >

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

2017-01-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/14/2017 12:13 PM, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:20:59AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.html http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.txt The key portion of the later is: "The `What Next?`_ section

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

2017-01-14 Thread pereira
for TeX on a debian-based system do sudo apt-get install texlive* be careful. It's about 1 Gb so it takes some time. Nino On 01/14/2017 01:13 PM, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:20:59AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

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

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:20:59AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.html > http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.txt > > The key portion of the later is: > "The `What Next?`_ section below has links to further

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

2017-01-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/14/2017 10:16 AM, Chris Green wrote: On 1/14/2017 6:40 AM, Chris Green wrote: [snip] reStructuredText is a markup laguage (i.e. it's similar to Markdown) but is designed for the job. It's quite readable in its native form and has conversion software for (I think, I haven't actually

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

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Green
> On 1/14/2017 6:40 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > [snip] > > reStructuredText is a markup laguage (i.e. it's similar to Markdown) > > but is designed for the job. It's quite readable in its native form > > and has conversion software for (I think, I haven't actually checked) > > HTML, LateX and

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

2017-01-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/14/2017 6:40 AM, Chris Green wrote: [snip] reStructuredText is a markup laguage (i.e. it's similar to Markdown) but is designed for the job. It's quite readable in its native form and has conversion software for (I think, I haven't actually checked) HTML, LateX and others. See:-

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

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 09:34:59PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:48:51 + > Peter Flynn wrote: > > Markdown is very limited, but what it does it does well, fast, and easy > for the author to read without conversion on every glance (or that > horror of

[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