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Kelvin Lau (kelvinl@magna.com.au) wrote:
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: which are freely available on the internet (public domain) and 
: do not require a heap of hacking and training to get going. 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Good luck. Most Linux
applications are a completely different kettle of fish to Windoze
apps...

: 1.1.59 kernel with Slackware 2.0.something(!) distribution.

I'd suggest you change that (if you've got time) to something like
Redhat 2, or Slackware 3 (which, I have been reliably assured, has a
heap of bugs - I never encountered them, but then, I'm always fiddling
with my system anyway :-) ) These two distributions both provide support
for ELF binaries, which is the way Linux is heading at the moment.

Also, upgrade to a 1.2 kernel - they've got all the features found in
1.1.*, and are considered much more stable.

: 1. Word for Windows - font formatting, alignments, WYSIWYG, 
: tables, OLE or graphics within documents.

TeX will do most of that except WYSIWYG. If WYSIWYG is important to you,
try LyX - it's an X-based front end to LaTeX, which provides
"almost-WYSIWYG" displays. (line breaks, page breaks, etc., are not
necessarily correct, due to the way LaTeX and TeX work.)

As for the others - the only one I can even think of a replacement for
is the HTML editor. Emacs has, I understand, support for HTML markups; I
don't know of any WYSIWYG editor for Linux, though. The closest you can
really come is if you use something like Netscape or Mosaic to view the
page as you create it.

TeX (and LaTeX) comes with the Slackware distribution - have a look at
the "T" set. LyX ... hmm, I can't remember where it comes from
originally offhand; two web sites that I've got marked down on my account
(somewhere :) ) are http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html and
http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/ettrich/

Hope this helps a bit.

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