On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:51 -0400, John W. Kennedy wrote: > James White wrote: > > Michael, I gotta ask a personal question: Why on EARTH are you using > > Windows > > if you are already an expert in UNIX? > > I'm not Michael, but I'm still on Windows because I need a decent > WYSIWYG music typesetter (I use Sibelius), http://www.quercite.com/pmw.html http://mscore.sourceforge.net/ http://developer.berlios.de/projects/noteedit http://lilypond.org/web/
They are not as easy to use as sibleius but all are free and lilypond produces excellent output. > Palm Desktop, Do not know what this is but http://www.jpilot.org/ would appear to fit the requirements. > and a GPS/road > atlas program (I use DeLorme Street Atlas USA). The first two I could > get with MacOS, but for the third I know of no alternative to Windows at > all. > http://tuxmobil.org/navigation_gps.html seems to list many. In particular http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net/ should be of interest > (For what it's worth, since the revelation that Microsoft is supporting > a creationist think-tank to the tune of $1,000,000 a year, I've sworn > that I will never buy another Windows system, no matter what I have to > sacrifice. But, if things remain as they are, it /will/ cripple me > considerably.) I think this should give more to think about at any rate. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
