There are a lot more books that you think that are written with just a
text editor. They use what is called a Markup language. Much like html.
There is a very goog one that comes standard with most Linux's called
LaTex. There is a GUI front end for it called lyx. Many people perf
these tag orianted markup languages to GUI word processor for a number
of reasons. The biggest being compatability. You can use all the tools
in Linux againts the raw text files. The text file compress much smaller
when zipped up. Change managment like CVS work much more efficient than
with binary files.
And as long as I have access to a text editor it could be vi, emacs,
windows notepad or the old dos edit command. I can still maintain my
document. I don't need office for Dos :) if I want to read the document.
Mike M.
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 12:39, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> On Saturday 26 July 2003 07:54, J. David Boyd wrote:
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> > On Saturday 26 July 2003 07:28, you wrote:
> > > You could eliminate two steps by just using vi or vim as you word
> > > processor. :)
> > > Mike M.
> >
> > I tend to do all my text entry in Xemacs, but then I past it into
> > StarOffice writer to mark it up for emphasis. Works pretty well, I guess.
> >
> There are documents and then there are documents.
>
> A text editor is great for short messages and configuration files but I would
> not want to write books with it.
>
> On the other hand there is OO Writer and Lotus for Linux (which I don't have
> installed. I did have before I screwed up my update front Md 9.0 to Md 9.1)
> and a few others which really don't work well with doc files.
>
> As far as doc files go the business world lives off of doc files so it is doc
> files or don't bother us with your computer problems.
>
> That of course brings up the subject of Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE
> Enterprise. Personally I have a hard time believing that anyone would pay
> that much for a obsolete system. Obsolete did you say. YES. It may not be
> obsolete the day they compile it but it definitely is not up to date the next
> day so what else would you call it after 2 to 3 years; the expected time
> before they plan on issuing update.
>
> Wonder what their word processor are like. No I don't care to find out. I had
> enough of those type of problems with Star office 5.1. Thanks but no thanks.
>
> Anyway those are my thoughts; maybe yours will be different.
>
> Frank
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