Howard Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You should check out Xemacs and its colour syntax highlighting.
I'm a vanilla GNU emacs user (presumably a power user and even a bit
nuts -- if you don't believe me, I use gnus to read all of my mail
(^:). Emacs also does color syntax highlighting (which I use), albeit
not as elegantly (Xemacs is the decendent of Lucid emacs, right?).
Anyway, that wasn't what I was looking for.
> I tested Applixware on a Solaris workstation, and I found it
> satisfactory. It has all the bells and whistles of any M****Soft
> product. It also reads Excel files, Word files as long as they are not
> saved in "Fast Save" format. It is less effective at importing
> WordPerfect, I had to do some reformatting. Check out
> http://www.applix.com.
It seems to be about what I'm looking for, and it seems to be the
consensus of the list that it's a fairly decent product. I do have
enough resources to run it, but I'm probably going to hold off a bit
before buying it (at $199, it's slightly more than I'm willing to pay
for before I'm really ready to use it. At half that, I would have
jumped already).
In the meantime, I'm building SAMBA to talk to the windoze printer and
TeX/LaTeX to see how well it can handle my manuscript formatting
requirements. I imagine I'll try to get LyX working, too, but that's
not so important to me, using LaTeX isn't particularly onerous. Since
I'm somewhat RPM adverse, I'll be looking for the raw source and I
think I've been sent enough info to find it.
Thanks, everybody.
doubt
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