[wplug] The Doc delemia, the ISP list.

mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Jul 23 19:25:16 EDT 2001


On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:33:18PM -0400, Brad Messner wrote:
> Well, I would have to agree with the Star Office idea.  I use it and
> prefer it over MS Office.  Honestly, most people won't be able to tell the
> difference.  Well, except for a few things:  it's cheaper, runs faster,
> and requires less resources than MS Office.
Well, this is relatively speaking ;) I think it's a huge memory hog and
a PITA.  But I also think that when one comes to Linux one should try and
give up the idiosyncracies of the Windows platform (in exchange for the
Linux idiosyncracies perhaps ;).  MS Word is one of those.  When you use
LaTeX (or LyX for the code-cowards ;) you *will* notice the difference.
Output from a LaTeX processor is very slick and professional looking.
And when you write long documents, especially any that involve technical
matters, LaTeX really becomes indispensible.  People pay Adobe lots of
$$$ for the same stuff that LaTeX has been doing for years, for free.

> 
> Also, I use StarGate for my Internet access.  They have access numbers all
> over western PA and the country for that matter.  The cost is about the
> same as any other dial-up and they are fully linux compatible.  They
> provide limited linux support for setting up your account, but I haven't
> had any problems with them yet.  Their site is  www.stargate.net
> 
> Have a great night.
> 
> // Brad Messner
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Sometime in July mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu assaulted keyboard and produced...
> > 
> > |I would turn it in in PDF or PostScript, having used LaTeX (and LyX possibly),
> > |and possibly a text version as well.  If they don't like that, one has
> > |to reconsider how happy one would be working there in the first place...
> > |unless you're really desperate.
> > 
> > and if you get used to latex for your writing you can even use it
> > to make presentations via prosper: http://prosper.sourceforge.net

Looks interesting.  I've messed around with SlideTeX a bit, but this sounds
better.


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