On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:02:47AM +1100, enterfornone wrote:
> Even if there was a Linux WP that was better than Word, the fact still
> remains that if your job involves using a word processor, chances are you
> will need to know Word.
But there's nothing to know. If your employer plops you down
in front of a machine that has Word on it, and tells you to
use it to write something, are you seriously suggesting that
the members of this list are rendered incapable of doing that
because they happen to prefer other writing methods, when given
their choice?
My employer's business runs entirely on Windows and MS-Office,
but that doesn't stop me from operating almost entirely without
them. Most of my writing (>90%, easily) is plain ASCII text
in either e-mail or source code. I have not received a word
.doc file that I couldn't make sense of with StarOffice.
(Hell, strings|par|less usually does a fine job!) Admittedly,
StarOffice takes a long time to load, so I usually take the
extra step of using StarOffice|print + ps2pdf to convert these
into PDF files, to save me some time in the future.
The guys in the office are gradually learning the bennefit of
putting documentation into PDF format anyway. Word .doc files
just aren't portable enough (even between different versions of
Windows and Word) for their purposes. The PDF files will always
look the same, and the recipient doesn't have to have exactly
the same setup as them.
--
Andrew
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