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Joey Maier (maierj@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu) wrote:
: In article <33EAA5FE.35177CDB@ied.com>, Petr Vicherek  <petr@ied.com> wrote:
: >rgw wrote:
: >> 
: >> We also need an "Office Suite" to replace M$ Office. We have had a quick
: >
: >I just posted the followitng observations on the Applixware.
: >  As for other than listed options, you can opt for more expensice
: >"cliq" (that I didn't try) or for SUN/CALDERA WABI windows emulator
: >
: > I know of 4 decent options, that you might have, all comercial:
: >
: >!. Staroffice. Free for noncomercial use, being finished.
: >2. Corel WordPerfect through Caldera, ~$200
: >3. Applix Office through RedHat, $200, $80 for students.
: >4. Cliq, free trial, some $200 to buy (?).

: It is definitely not an "office suite", but Lyx is a GUI front end to
: LaTEX that is supposed to work nicely for word processing.  

LyX is a nice piece of software.  I just got it up and running on my
system a few days ago and it's rather impressive.  However, it was sort
of a pain to get it initiallly configured.  The only other problem I have
with it is that it is VERY slow (at least on my machine which is a
486DX 80MHz...).  Now, if it's slow on 80MHz machine, then I dunno...
but overall, despite the fact that it's not too configurable, it can
indeed turn out some very nice looking documents...  

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