On Friday 06 December 2002 04:15 pm, Rick Moen wrote: > > If it'll help, I include a (too-brief) rundown on all available word > processors for Linux as part of my Word Perfect for Linux FAQ, > http://linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/ . Please see especially section 8.5 ("What > alternatives to WP exist on Linux?").
As a WordPerfect fan I think your FAQ is great; really great, and I'll probably end up reading the whole thing. WordPerfect 8 for Linux is one of the two greatest wordprocessors I've ever seen. The other is WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. WP 8 for Linux could do things that WP 8 for Windows couldn't do. It just seems like too much trouble to try to get it running on the old libraries. It seems that it would be better to switch to something with a future, and WordPerfect for Linux has no future. I had WP9 running before my / partition was reformatted. I've been debating whether to reinstall it, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Sometime ago another person on this list said that he took it off his machine because it was so bad. It is bad. I wish I had my $150 back from that purchase. I'd rather have $150 worth of single malt Scotch. I'm distressed to read on your FAQ that Gobe Productive is being taken over by someone else. I forked out $70 for the Windows version under an agreement to be given the now non-appearing Linux version. I even posted about four posts on this list bragging about the Windows version. I wish I could have that $70 back. Thanks to everyone who answered my post. To answer a question, I used to use Star Office 5.1. What bothered me was not the "desktop" approach. I thought it was a cumbersome and time consuming program. I don't know if open sourcing it will solve it's problems because the problems are in the design itself. I was always fighting the auto-correct and anticipation features. I turned some of them off, but was not always able to turn off all of them. Printing an envelope was unnecessarily difficult. There were two different ways to do it, and each was cumbersome. In WordPerfect if you have a letter on your screen with the address in it that you are sending it to, all it takes is two clicks and the envelope is printed. It's things like this that have led me to say that those who like Star Office have never really used a good word processor. While I don't like Star Office, I have always admired those of you who use it. The reason is that I have always seen the Star Office user as someone who was so divorced from Windows that he or she couldn't really understand what a good word processor was. But then again I'm a lawyer. And as Chris Di Bona once quipped at a LUGOD meeting, lawyers are the only group of computer users who are defined more by their choice of a word processor than they are by their choice of an operating system because they are so stuck on WordPerfect. Unfortunately, Chris's quip is outdated. I've read that only a shrinking minority of lawyer's now use Word Perfect. Such is life under the Dictatorship of the Market; the greatest word processor of them all is becoming extinct. Thanks again for *everyone's* post. Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech