Re: [dev] Suckless word processing solution?

From: Robert C Corsaro <rcorsaro_AT_optaros.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:24:28 -0400

But you'll have to agree that maths are impossible to do in plain text.

Jessta wrote:
> 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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