Jean-Claude wrote:
>
> Le 04-Oct-97 Howard Gibson a icrit:
>
> >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.
> >
>
> Sure, Applixware is really an impressive product. I use it on an
> usual basis.
> I used it to produce a very long document, formated as a book
> (more than 400 pages) in one doc, with indexing, foot and
> chapter notes, and all the bells and whistles you can think of
> (including graphics and figures).
>
> Could be a good alternative to $soft products.
>
> Jean-Claude
>
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Jean-Claude,
You didn't break up your book into sub-documents. I think that this is
one of TeX/LaTeX's best features. If you make each chapter a separate
file, you can work on each chapter, and have much better performance
from your computer.
I can tell you that I imported a half-meg Wordperfect_5.1 file, and it
took up about 360K in Applix format, and my system ran faster in Applix
than it did in WordPerfect. This is even though the SPARCstation had
only 32Mb RAM, marginally more than the minimum recommended for
Applixware.
Another nice feature of Applixware and other UNIX apps like NExS, is
that they use ASCII files. Sometimes you get some weird code embedded
in your WordPerfect file, and there is nothing you can do. The word
processor crashes, and there is no other way to edit the file.
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Howard Gibson
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