Re: phonetic symbols
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From: "L.F." <BEP@telefonica.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 15:36
Subject: phonetic symbols
First of all thanks to kmark+debian@pipeline.com for his comments. I have
OpenOffice 1.1.0; it is probably the latest version.I am not sure whether I
understand what you mena by "They use the space bar and not the tab". In
Windows I had everything in just one file; I converted it to Linux; then I
copied big chunks of it and pasted it in the 8 files; suppose that "because"
is in the middle of a line and the next word "there ..." is not in the same
line but at the beginning of the following line; if I try to put "there
..."
behind "because" to eliminate the blank space, I put the cursor after
"because" and I press Supr, then I save, close and open; the text has
disappeared. I was told by my friend that converting files from Linux to
Windows would be much worse; I am ready to believe it because big fish don't
have to worry about small fish but small fish have to worry about big fish.
I
bet that OpenOffice is wonderful as far as conversion is concerned but there
is something lacking. Well, the text is very long indeed: 960 pages in size
8, probably over 1500 pages in size 12; we are a group of more than twenty
Englisg-speaking teachers working in Spain and assisting a Spanish professor
of English who has dedicated over 30 years to writing what is considered at
the moment the best book in Spanish to learn English; that book was
published
only a few weeks ago with the title "Guía para los amantes del inglés"; it
has 960 pages in size 14.8 x 21 with letters in size 8, which is small but
not as small s some dictionaries of English, for example; it costs 15 euros,
which is very little in Spain; it offers 30 000 euros to any person who
presents another book in Spanish or any other language in the world that is
better and cheaper; the only language that is excluded is English because it
has to be in two languages: English and Spanish or whatever. On top of that
people who buy or have access to the book can ask as many questions as they
wish for 3 years without paying any money. If you are interested, go to
www.guiadelingles.com
We are not businessmen; we are altruists and passionate about English and
Spanish; therefore I would interested in reading about what other people may
comment or do concerning your wonderful suggestion.
Secondly thanks to Hoyt Bailey <hoyt13@wiredok.com> for his comments. Can it
help me? I use Debian knoppix.
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I doubt that nroff is still avilable I think roff generally replaced it
after word processors were invented. My comment was historical only. At
that time (K&E's whitebook was published) and nroff had a series of -m?
options including 'realesed papers' , and others where professors had a
format for publishing books, papers, almost everything. At that time they
could send the output to a typesetter and publish directly (with proper
equipment of course). As far as I know vi and nroff -m? were all that were
necessary. Ahhh a simpler time. I might say that I wouldnt want to redo a
1000 page document to use the system, it required embedded clues as to
formatting
Hoyt
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Thirdly thanks to Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> for his comments.
Actually this version of Openoffice calls TeX the tippa fonts I downloaded;
I
had said that they were called LatEx but I suppose that they are all the
same.
Finally I must say that another positive thing about Linux is that I am
learning much more about computers than I ever learned with Windows.
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