Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread pereira 

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. I haven't 
investigated

what others might do. Whatever started to work for me I stayed with.

Nino


n 01/13/2017 09:23 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:24:53 -0500
pereira  wrote:

  

Still, I vastly prefer writing in TeX.

What editor or tools do you use in writing TeX? Do you prefer any
particular flavor of TeX?

SteveT

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[xubuntu-users] Authoring tools: Was Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread Steve Litt 
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 made by Libreoffice and
> > exported into docx (which actually tends to shorten the file length
> > compared to Libreoffice's native format).
> > 
> > Still, I vastly prefer writing in TeX.  
> 
> Yes, I recommend LaTeX for formatting any large-scale or complex
> document. It is hugely more reliable and powerful than any
> wordprocessor, and has the advantages that it runs identically on any
> platform, and that there is a huge support ecosystem of people using
> it. It's also free software, in both senses of the phrase.
> 
> (Actually, for writing and editing a complex book or thesis, I would
> prefer XML, which can be transformed to LaTeX for formatting. But this
> is still not easy, as the XML editors out there are designed for
> experts, not for authors.)

Hi Peter and periera,

I have a germ of an idea for authoring documents in a write once, read
everywhere format.

Markdown is very limited, but what it does it does well, fast, and easy
for the author to read without conversion on every glance (or that
horror of horrors, WYSIWYG). I think I can add paragraph character
styles, within the format of Markdown, with low-distraction tags. The
result would be a Markdown doc that I could parse as XML (perhaps after
an HTML to XML conversion), with the ability to incorporate any
arbitrary character or paragraph style you want.

Although this can't, by itself, handle book specialties such as
footnotes and bibliographies, it can create (I assume) XHTML that can
easily be converted to web, ePub, or LaTeX, with all appearance ruled
by CSS or LaTeX stylesheets.

I haven't done this yet, but it looks to me like a very realistic way
to author the kind of books I write.

SteveT

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Re: [xubuntu-users] shell tools

2017-01-13 Thread Steve Litt 
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

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Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread Peter Flynn 
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 file length
> compared to Libreoffice's native format).
> 
> Still, I vastly prefer writing in TeX.

Yes, I recommend LaTeX for formatting any large-scale or complex
document. It is hugely more reliable and powerful than any
wordprocessor, and has the advantages that it runs identically on any
platform, and that there is a huge support ecosystem of people using it.
It's also free software, in both senses of the phrase.

(Actually, for writing and editing a complex book or thesis, I would
prefer XML, which can be transformed to LaTeX for formatting. But this
is still not easy, as the XML editors out there are designed for
experts, not for authors.)

///Peter

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Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread Len Philpot 

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 put Word 6's UI 
on WordPerfect 5.x's engine.


*Len Philpot*
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Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread François P . Rotzinger 



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 .docx


For scientists, engineers, ..: It is important to use Windows fonts, 
especially the "symbol" fonts. Then, the *.docx files generated with 
LibreOffice are OK. Another issue are the citations, if the LibreOffice 
database is used: in the text, the numbers generated by the database, 
have to retyped as normal text. Figures, graphics, ... should not be 
inserted as LibreOffice drawing files: I insert them as *.png files. If 
this is followed, the *.docx file should be OK.


François


On 01/12/2017 03:07 PM, Will wrote:
I would like to leave Windows forever but I need MS Word.  Does 
anyone know of an easy to install Linux distro with MS Word 
included?  By included I mean when installed MS word is ready to use 
with no involved configuration.


Thank you
William Tabacchi










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