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mind@ripco.com (Dr. Who) writes:

> 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...  

Worked fine on my 486DX2/66. I have 24MB RAM though. No speed problems
at all. In fact it was pretty snappy.

Personally, I got annoyed with it conforming to LaTeX's view of things
(for instance, not letting you use a series of CR's to open up a gap),
said to hell with it, and just learnt the basics of LaTeX. It's not
that hard, and you don't get the bother of LyX not letting you do
something because LaTeX wouldn't let you do it.

It's also fun to have to compile your word processor documents. :) And
to have compilation errors. :)

It also means I almost never leave emacs now. Folks, emacs can change
your life! :)

Still waiting for a stand-alone WP or suite for my SO. Might have to
persuade her to buy the academic version.

		- Justin

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