Re: [dev] Suckless word processing solution?

From: Jessta <jessta_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:57:29 +1000

I haven't had a printer in 9 years, I don't even have CUPS installed
and in that time I've only ever had to print things out a few times
and only for other people's needs.
My suckless version of typesetting is to not typeset anything at all.

On 30/09/2009, Anselm R Garbe <anselm_AT_garbe.us> wrote:
> 2009/9/29 Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:06:16PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm looking for such thing as well. On IRC in the #suckless channel
>>> someone posted a link to Word 5.5 just now, I think that might be an
>>> option for the interim. I think Word 5.5 is the most usable MS Word
>>> release ever created, it definately sucks less than any FOSS
>>> alternative. But I'm uneasy on relying it in the long term.
>>
>> I think Corel was a lot better than Word in the Office 5 days.
>
> Hmm, I'm not too sure that by the time when Word 5.5[1] was created
> "Office" existed at all... I thought that "Office" branding was a
> later invention, but I might be wrong.
>
> [1]
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe
>
> Kind regards,
> Anselm
>
>

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