Quoth M.W. Chang:
better than open office?
Yup, in the same way that single malt scotch is better than Listerine.
Kurt
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Quoth dep:
i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very
good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in
case anyone had been interested but didn't want to pay $50 for the
product (though if it were $200 it would be worth it, imho).
Just
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:00:35 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:23 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth M.W. Chang:
better than open office?
Yup, in the same way that single malt scotch is better than
Listerine.
Kurt
On this thread, someone
quoth Leon A. Goldstein:
| I ordered a copy this morning. I will only use Textmaker
| occasionally to format HTML documents. After playing a bit with the
| trial download, I do find Textmaker a lot simpler for the non-expert
| to format a HTML document than OO or Staroffice.
that's the one
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:23:43PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth M.W. Chang:
better than open office?
Yup, in the same way that single malt scotch is better than Listerine.
Kurt
Mm... single malt scotch, something I haven't had for *years*. Ah
well, back to my Sprite.
--
Myles
Dep wrote:
quoth Leon A. Goldstein:
| I ordered a copy this morning. I will only use Textmaker
| occasionally to format HTML documents. After playing a bit with the
| trial download, I do find Textmaker a lot simpler for the non-expert
| to format a HTML document than OO or Staroffice.
that's
what does textmaker do?
dep wrote:
i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very
good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in
case anyone had been interested but didn't want to pay $50 for the
product (though if it were $200 it would be
quoth M.W. Chang:
| what does textmaker do?
it is an *excellent* word processor. reads and writes msft word files of
many flavors -- best filters i've ever seen. and is both very powerful
and very fast. i've so far used it for three book proposals
(complicated documents of about 25,000 words
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:37:01 +0800
M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what does textmaker do?
dep wrote:
i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very
good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in
case anyone had been interested but
On Sunday 09 November 2003 05:10 am, Rick Sivernell wrote:
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:37:01 +0800
M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what does textmaker do?
It's a floor wax . . . No, it's a dessert topping . . . .No, floor wax,
. . . . No, dessert topping. Stop, you're both right!
And, for
On Sunday 09 November 2003 04:49 am, dep wrote:
quoth M.W. Chang:
| what does textmaker do?
it is an *excellent* word processor. reads and writes msft word files
of many flavors -- best filters i've ever seen. and is both very
powerful and very fast. i've so far used it for three book
better than open office?
Tony Alfrey wrote:
Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads and
writes Word format.
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M. W. Chang wrote:
better than open office?
Tony Alfrey wrote:
Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads and
writes Word format.
I dloaded the trial version after reading the original post.
Abiword still gets my nod. The latest release that came with Libranet
quoth M.W. Chang:
| better than open office?
far different (though in my estimation oodles better, also). textmaker
is a word processor/desktop publisher, period. it is much, much smaller
and much, much faster than openoffice. on a machine here where
openoffice takes more than a minute to open
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:29 am, M.W. Chang wrote:
better than open office?
Tony Alfrey wrote:
Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads
and writes Word format.
Don't know; haven't used OO.
Sorry.
I think they still have a trial version; load it up and give it
On Sunday 09 November 2003 07:05 am, Collins Richey wrote:
snip
I'm used to waiting for reponse from user groups re open source
products, but IMHO a commerical provider needs to have a little
better response than this.
Perhaps I'll try again or try to buy it during the Karnival madness.
Try
OpenOffice is more akin to the full MS Office suite - it has Word, Excel,
and Powerpoint equivalents and I've found it works well.
Tony Alfrey wrote:
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:29 am, M.W. Chang wrote:
better than open office?
Tony Alfrey wrote:
Seriously, however, it's a Word
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 13:28, Tony Alfrey wrote:
On Sunday 09 November 2003 07:05 am, Collins Richey wrote:
snip
I'm used to waiting for reponse from user groups re open source
products, but IMHO a commerical provider needs to have a little
better response than this.
Perhaps I'll try
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