----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "L.F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 00:59 Subject: Re: phonetic symbols
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: > > > I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't have > > the Acrobat Reader program; > ---right. > In Linux the pdf is free but in Windows it costs > > 600 euros. > ----expected. > > Email the file to me, if you like -- I'll convert it for you on myMac.Cam-- > > Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych.From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine > > Coastcam(at)ellisonet(dot)cacamellison(at)dccnet(dot)comcam(at)fleuryassocia tes(dot)com > > Thanks a lot to Cam Ellison! > > > ---cool. > Actually I found a pdf I had from Windows and it works wonderfully In Debian > ----great. > > but the problem is that I keep adding information to that old file, so that > > pdf is not up to date any more and I need to sort it out in Debian. > ---there are no progrmas that I know of in Win, Linux, mac that edit pdfs. > Pdfs are supposed to be an OUTPUT format. > Now I have another problem with OpenOffice: this file has over 1000 pages; as > > it was so big OpenOffice took ages to add a single word, so I decided to make > > 8 small files with just over 100 pages each. > ---Good move. Also, why not make the big document into 'chapters' > documents. > In Windows 1995, 1998, 2000 it > > worked very well that way and less well with over 1000 pages > ---expected. > > but with > > OpenOffice it takes a long time to add one word in just one of the 8 small > > files and there is also a terrible problem: > --ok. I guess you could get OpenOffice (OO) 1.1 (the latest) to see if > that helps. > > when I converted the file from > > Windows to Debian there was sometimes a blank space between a word and the > > following one; > --a problem may people have is that they type the document in wrong the > first time. They use the space bar and not the tab. This makes spacing > inconsistent. This can cause the problem you described, > > in the original file there was no such a blank space; for > > example, suppose that "because" is in the middle of a line and the next word > > "there ..." is not in the same line but at the beginning of the following > > line; if I try to put "there ..." behind "because to eliminate the blank > > space, it takes a few minutes and does it; apparently everything is fine; > ---not sure. maybe you have to 'refresh' the view. try 'save' 'close' > 'open'. and see if the text reappears. > > I > > save the file and when I open it again, all the words that were after "there" > > until the end of the paragraph, maybe 30 lines, have disappeared. So I have > > to find another older file to copy those 30 lines and paste it again; > > otherwise I can't recover those 30 lines any more. That has happened to me at > > leat 5 times, so I am terrified about the whole thing. > See above comment. Sounds strange. > > I tried with KWord but > > it is even worse, it doesn't convert some pages throughout the file; it is > > just horrible. > --kword does not open .doc(?) and does not have as good formating/features > as OO. Maybe try abiword. > > > I certainly think that Linux is wonderful as far as the Internet is concerned > > because there are no viruses and it doesn't reboot every once in a while like > > Windows when there is a small error but as far as word processing is > > concerned I am disappointed; > ---Well OO is trying to copy Word with no help from MS. I think they did a > damn good job considering how word keeps changing. > > maybe it has to do with the fact that the 8 > > files were not written in Linux originally but I am thinking about the > > possibility of installing Windows as well in another disk just for the Word > > processor because at the moment I have the problem of the fonts and on top of > > it the problem of disappearance of many words without any reason at all. > ---Consider if you did the document in OO first and then wanted it in PDF. > No prob. And then someone wanted it in DOC. There probably would have been > the same types of probs. But there is a version of OO in Windows. > > > > I have to solve both problems; my friend is helping me with the first one > > > thanks to all the help that some of you have given me but can somebody help > > me to solve the second one before I decide to install Word from Windows as > > well? > > READ THIS AT LEAST > > -- What type of document is this. It sounds like a long document like a > Thesis. Linux has very powerful and somewhat easy tools for the creation > of long documents and books. Those maybe a great thing to consider for > this project. And would be a great continuation to your free software > education. I'm sure someone here could comment on the use of tex, docbook > or other formats for creating long documents especcialy in the case that > the document contains special linguistic symbols. Any investment in this > would pay a great rewards! > > -kev > My first contact with UNIX was truly impresive due to the ease and variety of text handling tools. vi, sed, cat, & others. Therefore I find it difficult to understand why there is such difficulty. The only difficulty I would have is converting the result into pdf. I doubt that I would do that unless there was a very good reason. Remember nroff -m(x). Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]