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Bill Gates is a big pussy too, if it makes everyone feel better to hear me say that.

Duke Stratosphere wrote:

Even in such a crazy scenario as that, OpenOffice.org can open Office files, so it wouldn't be a problem.

So, opening a licensed file format, using it, with a different application, not produced by the original manufacturer is allowed ? Its not against the law?

Duke Stratosphere wrote:

prot wrote:

Duke Stratosphere wrote:

Even in such a crazy scenario as that, OpenOffice.org can open Office files, so it wouldn't be a problem.

So, opening a licensed file format, using it, with a different application, not produced by the original manufacturer is allowed ? Its not against the law?

Apparently not. OpenOffice.org also offers to save a file you make with it as a Microsoft Word file.

Are Microsoft just being kind? Could'nt they, if they wished, do a 180 and say, from now on, if you want to use .doc you must buy a license that is good for 1 user, on 1 machine, for 1 year?

It will be cheap, only $1 a user. But I have potentially 30,000 users, more if I include folks outside of our agencies.

jerwin wrote:

ah. a fellow latex fetishist!

Mac users can use TeXShop as sort of a GUI frontend for the TeX engine. It doesnt make it Wisiwig, but it does provie syntax highlighting, spellchecking, and other Cocoa goodies.

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I use e-macs with autex for my LaTeX authoring:



It's not wysiwyg either - but it is nice.
I use ispell for spell checking - it knows how to ignore LaTeX syntax and just spell check the syntax.

I got started in LaTeX with LyX - but the more I used it, the more I found myself using the ERT box - and finally decided I was more productive just using the raw text.

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I just started a new package repository for rpm based Linux distributions -

http://mpeters.us/tetexrpm/

I'm hoping it will become a large repository of up to date packages, making it easier for Linux users to install new packages and grab updates to crusty packages in their tetex TEXMFMAIN tree.

egads - this going way off topic.

Anyway -

http://mpeters.us/tetexrpm/doc/tetexrpm.html
vs
http://mpeters.us/tetexrpm/doc/tetexrpm.pdf

In one case - the file was processed with pdflatex to produce a pdf.
In the other case - the file was processed with htlatex (part of tex4ht) to produce decent looking html (and it could be better - I haven't even begun to configure tex4ht)

That of course is a fairly simple demonstration (no math, no images or figures, etc.) - but it also works quite well with complex documents (same source .tex file producing gorgeous PDF and gorgeous MathML document)

tex4ht can also output xml, including I mathml - and I believe it also can output ODT - but if MS doesn't support ODT, going from LaTeX to Word will continue to be a pain in the ass (involving going to xml first, and then using OO.o or AbiWord to go from xml to .doc)

It's just dumb for MS not to embrace ODT import/export - it is a clear case of MS simply not wanting to play nice.

(whew - back on topic)

XYZ wrote:

Monday, January 23 2006
Peter Quinn's First Interview

Well, that's nice, but it appears to be taking (literally) forever to load.

OK, tried again and got it, so don't worry about your link.

Now I realize that Quinn is a wuss and a geek!

Last edited by Duke Stratosphere (2006-01-24 11:47 pm)