[olug] Abiword footnotes/Latex plug

[Don E. Kauffman]

All right, I'll bite -- whats so complicated about emacs? (Not that I want to 
get a flame war started or anything!!) ;-) I picked up Perfect Writer on my 
first Kaypro CP/M machine back in the early eighties and found the document 
formatting much more precise than Wordstar. For those who don't recognize it  
Perfect Writer was an emacs clone and came as part of a suite whicn included 
Perfect Format, etc. You inserted text formating commands with perfect Writer 
and ran the document through Perfect Format . (i.e. footnotes would be 
inserted directly in the text of the document with the "footmote" delimited 
by parenthesis. Then you'd run the text through Perfect Format and it would 
place the foootnote at the bottom of the page. ) Could have stood some 
impovements like onscreen formating so you could see what was happening. but 
these were the "good old daze" when you only had 64 k memory and an 8 bit Z80 
processor. :-)

Then the choise was between Wordstar (now Star Office) and Perfect Writer. I 
found Wordstar too limited for what i needed even though it was easy to 
learn.  Emacs may be difficult at first (like Linux ) but I really appreciate 
the flexibility of its commands and it's ability to do windows -- not M$.  
Cheat sheets help a lot.  

That's my 2 cents (now worth 1/2 cent with imflation).!


Don 


On Thursday 02 May 2002 10:24 am, you wrote:
> LaTeX isn't a word processor,  it's a set of macros for Tex (which is
> also not a word processor ;).  Tex is a text processing language that
> has a strong academic audience.  I'm not very familier with word
> processing in Linux, but I think AbiWord is the closest thing to a
> Microsoft Word out there right now.  If you need to edit text files
> jEdit works well and is similar to Notepad.  gvim or vim are also good
> at this.  I feel obligated to mention emacs also, though I wouldn't
> recommend it for simple text file editing, it can be a bit complicated.
>
> Andrew
>
> Tanya Loughead wrote:
> >Here's a question to everyone on the list: Given that one may only need
> > text capabilities, which Linux-based word processor do you find to be the
> > best? It seems that everyone is casting votes for LaTeX thus far.... is
> > that the general consensus?
> >Thanks for the input,
> >Tanya
>
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