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- From: martelli@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,to.rde
- Subject: Re: Linux - the future?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.150731.25327@cadlab.sublink.org>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 15:07:31 GMT
- References: <1992Oct25.144134.19612@cs.hw.ac.uk> <1992Oct25.172207.11981@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Oct27.194455.22924@mo.hobby.nl> <1992Oct30.035230.3223@ksmith.uucp> <1992Nov2.194146.20882@mo.hobby.nl> <michaelw.720818493@mcshh.hanse.de>
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- michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will) writes:
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- :hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) writes:
- :>A combination of GNU emacs and TeX is an excellent (and IMHO
- :>a vastly superior) replacement for something like WordPerfect.
- :>I know of at least one commercial site where this is used daily
- :>for business correspondence and all kind of papers. But don't
- :>start a religious war on that.
- :Yes, I asked one from Springer Press (not the bloodpaper Axel Springer)
- :and he said something like wordperfect would be nice, but if it comes
- :to real professional things they would use tex/latex...
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- Yes, I'm also a vi/LaTeX user by choice. However, I'm looking for some
- sort of a word processor anyway, because my wife (a humanist) and kids
- (8 and 10), who share my Unix "playstation" at home, find that too
- hard to handle...
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