Steve,
I happen to write TeX with gedit, which is the standard ASCII editor that
comes with Xubuntu. But, in earlier times I've used other ASCII editors,
including VAX' edt and even punched cards, not editor at all. Whatever
works.
On the TeX end I used to use plain tex, but now I use latex.
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:48:51 +
Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 01/13/2017 02:24 AM, pereira wrote:
> > FWIW, I use Libreoffice whenever someone in the MS Windows world
> > sends me a document in .doc or .docx format. So far I've had no
> > problems with sending them back documents
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:59:34 -0500
pereira wrote:
> Still, adding to the instructions how best to add the link to
> whatever to $PATH
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/prepostpath.htm
SteveT
Steve Litt
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On 01/13/2017 02:24 AM, pereira wrote:
> FWIW, I use Libreoffice whenever someone in the MS Windows world
> sends me a document in .doc or .docx format. So far I've had no
> problems with sending them back documents made by Libreoffice and
> exported into docx (which actually tends to shorten the
On 01/13/2017 01:09 AM, David Walland wrote:
> I've used Word since Word 2 in the early 90s ...
You mean you never experienced Word 6 for DOS? :-) Actually it wasn't
all that terrible, all things considered. Back in those days, I would
have been pretty happy (in a DOS context) if I could've
On 01/13/2017 02:28 AM, JMZ wrote:
I'm writing an doctoral dissertation in LibreOffice. It's not a
lightweight word processor. Documents can be saved in .docx for
colleagues using Word. So far my colleagues haven't had difficulty
reading LibreOffice composed files that are translated to