Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices,
Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?
Murray Taylor
MTaylor at bytecraft.com.au
Sun Apr 29 02:27:41 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> Garrett Cooper
> Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 4:28 AM
> To: perryh at pluto.rain.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will
> FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?
>
> perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> >> OpenOffice in OSX still isn't that great either because there
> >> still isn't a native (Aqua) build.
> >
> > I suspect the NeoOffice folks would be surprised to hear that :)
>
> Yes >_>.. I mean that the latest and greatest version of OOo isn't
> available for Aqua native yet. It's going to take another
> year to port,
> as someone has claimed already.
>
> There was a big leap in terms of functionality from 1.x vs
> 2.x in OOo,
> but then again considering that the OP was asking about
> running Office
> 98 (:D..), I don't think he'd mind running the 1.x version binaries.
>
> -Garrett
As the original poster wants to write books .... may I suggest that he
use
a text editor and then a typesetter combination rather than any form of
WYSIWYG wordprocessor.
IE use (insert favourite text editor here) then use the LaTeX / Tetex
port
to actually properly format the material as a book.
Yes there is a learning curve here, but the end result is all
over a wordprocessed attempt.
mjt
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