Shirley M?rquez D?lcey writes:
> So far as I know, the
> licenses that come with computers still do not come with any virtual
> machine rights.
OTOH, a legitimate Windows 10 license is $119 (according to the
Internet, which never lies), and Windows 10 Pro is $199, so it's not a
big deal if you're
Matt, the document you passed along is specific to volume license
agreements - in other words, corporate licenses. It does not apply to
Windows licenses that come with a computer bought by a normal
consumer, or by a company that just buys licensed computers and does
not have a Windows Enterprise or
On 12/11/2017 11:38 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
> The catch is licensing. The Windows license that came with your
> computer doesn't cover running it in a virtual machine. You'll have to
> buy a full retail license to do that legally.
Sorry to come to this thread late, but I don't think this
Steve Litt writes:
> Mike Small mentioned
> http://obsd.si/papers/eurobsdcon2014-mandoc-paper.pdf , which is an
> improved man page authoring tool. From what I learned skimming the
> link, mandoc has been created exclusively to create man pages, to the
> extent that its styles have a 1 to 1 corre
On 12/12/2017 10:03 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
> I've written several O'Reilly books in DocBook, such as "Linux Pocket
> Guide." For editing, I used Emacs and the commercial XML editor
> XMLmind. The same DocBook source produced the printed book, the PDF,
> and the eBook.
Sure, but that's technical
On December 12, 2017, Steve Litt wrote:
>Everybody and their dog mentions Docbook as the solution to write-once,
>read-everywhere, but finding people actually using it productively for
>that purpose is extremely difficult.
I've written several O'Reilly books in DocBook, such as "Linux Pocket
Guide
And Richard Pieri piles on with Pandoc. And John Abreau's observations
on "tweaking" vs. true formatting. What a great thread! It's been a
while since I learned so much about something I care about in such a
short time. Thanks to all for the valuable pointers and insights!
Theo Ruegsegger
On Tue,
Thanks to Steve Litt for that clear and comprehensive reply to my
questions, and the comforting assurance that I'm not the only one
balking at the DocBook learning curve.
I've long wondered what happened to the "write-once, read-everywhere"
movement, and I'm delighted to read on the Stylz website
2017-12-05 2:25 GMT+01:00 Nancy Allison :
> Hello, all.
>
> I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice 5.1.6.2.
>
> I've been sent a .docx file with a fairly complex layout, and the layout is
> trashed immediately upon opening in LibreOffice. I know from past
> experience that docx files that I've mod
On 12/12/2017 6:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> The mini-markup languages fail hard when writing whole books in which
> consistency is a must, and specific style to appearance conversions are
> needed. This is because you can't create your own arbitrary paragraph
> and character styles in the mini-marku
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:43:13 -0500
Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > [Rationale for separating document content from presentation, as
> > embodied in Stylz]
>
> Isn't this the raison-d'etre for DocBook?
Yes.
>
> Last I looked, that seemed to
Theodore Ruegsegger writes:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> [Rationale for separating document content from presentation, as embodied in
>> Stylz]
>
> Isn't this the raison-d'etre for DocBook?
>
> Last I looked, that seemed to be working pretty well, though it was
> diffi
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> [Rationale for separating document content from presentation, as embodied in
> Stylz]
Isn't this the raison-d'etre for DocBook?
Last I looked, that seemed to be working pretty well, though it was
difficult to find tutorials that didn't lose me
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:46:21 +
Mike Small wrote:
> Nancy Allison writes:
>
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > I painfully conclude that I must install Word on my Ubuntu 16.04
> > machine. I need to be able to handle Word files consistently.
> >
> > So I opened Synaptic Package Manager and searched for
Hi, Mike!
I appreciate your point of view!
The documents that I deal with come to me from outside sources, businesses
whose software decisions I have no influence over
--Nancy
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Mike Small wrote:
> Nancy Allison writes:
>
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > I painful
Nancy Allison writes:
> Hello, all.
>
> I painfully conclude that I must install Word on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I
> need to be able to handle Word files consistently.
>
> So I opened Synaptic Package Manager and searched for Microsoft Word. No
> luck.
>
> What do I do? How do I get it installed
On 12/12/2017 4:43 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
Bill Horne
I'm looking for a job! All leads appreciated!
It always helps to specify what sort of job you're looking for or what
your special skills are. (And you never know who might see one of your
e-mails.)
I want to either be the towel boy in
Good suggestion Daniel. Functional and is the direction MS is moving.
-Eric
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Daniel Barrett
wrote:
> On December 11, 2017, Nancy Allison wrote: >I painfully conclude that I must
> install Word on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I >need to be able to handle Word
> f
On December 11, 2017, Nancy Allison wrote:
>I painfully conclude that I must install Word on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I
>need to be able to handle Word files consistently.
Culd you use MS Word Online for free and not install anything?
https://products.office.com/en-us/office-online/documents-s
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
wrote:
> The other option is to run Office under Wine or CrossOver. (The latter
> is a commercially supported non-free offshoot of Wine.) I haven't
> tried it but it's supposed to work reasonably well, because that's one
> of the software pa
Correct. I bought myself a copy of Windows 7 to use specifically for
this purpose. It is a bit annoying to have to do that, but it's not
that expensive. (See
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832416804)
I'm not sure there's too many other practical options beyond that.
The other option is to run Office under Wine or CrossOver. (The latter
is a commercially supported non-free offshoot of Wine.) I haven't
tried it but it's supposed to work reasonably well, because that's one
of the software packages that they concentrate on supporting.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:3
The catch is licensing. The Windows license that came with your
computer doesn't cover running it in a virtual machine. You'll have to
buy a full retail license to do that legally.
A Windows license really should cover running any number of virtual
machines with Windows on the same computer, so lo
On 12/11/2017 10:05 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
Hello, all.
I painfully conclude that I must install Word on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I
need to be able to handle Word files consistently.
So I opened Synaptic Package Manager and searched for Microsoft Word. No
luck.
What do I do? How do I get it i
On 12/11/2017 10:05 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
Hello, all.
I painfully conclude that I must install Word on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I
need to be able to handle Word files consistently.
So I opened Synaptic Package Manager and searched for Microsoft Word. No
luck.
What do I do? How do I get it i
Hello, all.
I painfully conclude that I must install Word on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I
need to be able to handle Word files consistently.
So I opened Synaptic Package Manager and searched for Microsoft Word. No
luck.
What do I do? How do I get it installed?
I know, it pains me! But I don't see
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
> Thanks, all.
>
> I appreciate the background information on why compatibility is not assured
> or easy. I will upgrade to 5.4x when the time is right (when I have at
> least one grizzled Linux veteran nearby to help out if the unexpected
> occ
Thanks, all.
I appreciate the background information on why compatibility is not assured
or easy. I will upgrade to 5.4x when the time is right (when I have at
least one grizzled Linux veteran nearby to help out if the unexpected
occurs) ...
--Nancy
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Derek Martin
Typically, if a Word-generated document gets its formatting trashed by
opening it in something else, it's because it was never truly formatted to
begin with; instead, the author most likely tweaked and poked at it
haphazardly until it looked OK on his or her screen, in which case it would
likely lo
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:25:45PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote:
> Is there a Word-compatible open source program that truly does not trash
> the formatting? Or is it simply not possible to pass documents back and
> forth between Word and an open source program like LibreOffice or
> OpenOffice? I use
But also, the version you're running is old, and unsupported. There's a
5.4.x release [1] and also a 6.x beta
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?version=6.0.0
Greg Rundlett
https://eQuality-Tech.com
https://freephile.org
On Mon, Dec 4, 2
On 12/4/2017 8:43 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> You would think that this poses problems of backwards compatibility with
> older copies of Word, and you would be correct. Sometimes Word can't
> open Word-generated files. There have been significant problems
> with Word for Windows vs Word for MacOS.
Als
Darn, I was afraid of that. Thanks.
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:25:45PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice 5.1.6.2.
> >
> > I've been sent a .docx file with a fairly complex layout, and th
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:25:45PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice 5.1.6.2.
>
> I've been sent a .docx file with a fairly complex layout, and the layout is
> trashed immediately upon opening in LibreOffice. I know from past
> experience that d
Hello, all.
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice 5.1.6.2.
I've been sent a .docx file with a fairly complex layout, and the layout is
trashed immediately upon opening in LibreOffice. I know from past
experience that docx files that I've modified in LibreOffice are, if
possible, even nastier wh
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