Re: URL for StarOffice is here
stephen farrell wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <moffatt@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:
> > On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > > On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote:
Do any of these import Word* or Wordperfect? I don't want to re-type
my resume. One of these days I'm going to have to reverse engineer a
Word to troff perl.
> > >
> > > > Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a
> > > > "Debian Success Story". So, here it is
> > > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice
> > >
> > > Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word processor
> > > compared to Lyx?
> >
> > I tried StarOffice earlier today. <snip> a pan review <snip>.
> >
> > Anyone want to give a comparison with Applixware?
> > I'm considering buying Applixware because it is only $100 AUD
> > student price, which is pretty good (MS Office 97 is $200
> > for students I think, regularly nearly $500).
> >
>
> You should also take a gander at wp 7 before you throw any money on
> the table. There is a beta at http://www.sdcorp.com/. I've never
> tried applixware, but I prefer wp7 to staroffice, and it's much better
> than wp 6 for linux, though quite reminiscent (hopefully they'll fix
> some things before the release, like the cheezy preferences
> button-box, and some remaining problems with font-rendering).
>
> I didn't care much for lyx. It didn't seem to offer an advantages
> over auctex/emacs/xdvi (which would probably be my wordprocessing
> platform of choice--these commercial offerings are mostly useful for
> when people send me Word6 smack).
>
> --sf
>
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