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Re: lyx rather than openoffice



On Monday 21 March 2005 04:15 pm, A J Stiles wrote:
> On Monday 21 March 2005 11:39, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
> If KWord could open .sxw files and KSpread could open .sxc files, I for one
> would ditch OOo with all its clunkiness in a heartbeat.
>
> I remember Wordwise Plus on the BBC Model B.  You typed your text on a
> 40-column screen, marked up with control codes; and it came out of an
> 80-column printer.  This was for memory saving  {the Beeb had a char-mapped
> display mode which used less memory than the bit-mapped ones}  but it also
> implied an abstraction between content and presentation.  When I first saw
> WYSIWYG word processing on a Mac, I found it flashy, but kind of annoying
> all the same.

If only 40-col mode would support chemical structures and equations ... 

:)

Egon



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