RE: [luau] Open Office Malahini
The wonderful thing about gvim/vim/vi is that it has over 150 syntax scripts as listed on the site below. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=script_type=syntaxorder_by=ratingdirection=descendingsearch=search According to this command Red Hat's vim-common package comes with 343 syntax files!! !! !! [EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax]$ rpm -ql vim-common|grep -c syntax 343 vi always was and always will be _the_ programmer's text editor. Tom The neat thing about it is you can tell it what language you are coding in (a list of about 20,ranging from Ada to XML) and it highlights everything according to the syntax rules for the language. I do most of my perl with it.
Re: [luau] Open Office Malahini
I never thought I would say this, but the progress of OOo has begun to completely shock me. As I mentioned in my previous posts, I had very low opinions about OpenOffice.org, and those opinions were valid as late as version 1.0.3 (the version that came with RH9). In many aspects, at version 1.1, OOo is better than Microsoft Office. Feature-wise, I would rank OOo 1.1 about the same as MSO 97. But as we all know, Microsoft Office is best known as a product whose quality goes down with each newer version (since MSO 97, anyway). OOo is an excellent desktop publishing program. If you want to have a taste of how far it can do (as far as DTP is concerned), go to the OpenOffice.org Starters' Guide (a project maintained by a PhD student at University of Maryland): http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/openoffice/intro/ then click on the pdf file to dl it. I read a review which compares OOo 1.1 with FrameMaker (a wellknown DTP program) and Microsoft Word, and OOo appears to have best of both worlds. This is truly amazing. Now about using OpenOffice to do coding. Of course, nobody will do that. But nothing will prevent you from doing that, either. The only thing you need to do is, save it as a .txt (text) file. This will eliminate all the unnecessary formatting coding. OTOH, OpenOffice has an auto complete feature, which non-programmers like myself may find neat when using OOo to do some coding. Warren Togami wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:04, Ben Timmerman wrote: I've been real silent on this list since being very stupid a while back concerning list etiquette but in the last couple days have gotten my first exposure to Open Office and need someone's imput. Two questions: First, which of the Open Office utilites is the one to code in? I'm coding some Java and my first stab has me using the *.sxw file format which apparently includes some unnecessary formatting that the compiler wrinkles it's nose at. Absolutely nobody uses OpenOffice to do coding. OpenOffice is suited only for office-type documents... typing papers, page layout, spreadsheets, etc.
RE: [luau] Open Office Malahini
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben Timmerman Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 21:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [luau] Open Office Malahini I've been real silent on this list since being very stupid a while back concerning list etiquette but in the last couple days have gotten my first exposure to Open Office and need someone's imput. Two questions: First, which of the Open Office utilites is the one to code in? I'm coding some Java and my first stab has me using the *.sxw file format which apparently includes some unnecessary formatting that the compiler wrinkles it's nose at. Finally, What is the best hard copy reference for the Open Office Suite? I know we're supposed to be online oriented but I find myself more and more looking forward to reading a physical text from time to time. Thanx, Ben Timmerman Not to take anything away from OOo (and I apologize for being off-thread), but for coding stuff (depending on what it is), I sometimes use NEdit (www.nedit.org), an X Windows multipurpose editor. The neat thing about it is you can tell it what language you are coding in (a list of about 20, ranging from Ada to XML) and it highlights everything according to the syntax rules for the language. I do most of my perl with it. Best Regards, Camron Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu America, INC. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[luau] Open Office Malahini
I've been real silent on this list since being very stupid a while back concerning list etiquette but in the last couple days have gotten my first exposure to Open Office and need someone's imput. Two questions: First, which of the Open Office utilites is the one to code in? I'm coding some Java and my first stab has me using the *.sxw file format which apparently includes some unnecessary formatting that the compiler wrinkles it's nose at. Finally, What is the best hard copy reference for the Open Office Suite? I know we're supposed to be online oriented but I find myself more and more looking forward to reading a physical text from time to time. Thanx, Ben Timmerman