Re: here you can bash Magdalenian
- From: DKleinecke <dkleinecke@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:48:46 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 4, 3:01 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:07:15 GMT, John Atkinson
<johna...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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sci.lang:
Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
[...]
it seems my computer had both and I put in "write".Save yourself a little money and download Open Office
thanks. I will now use "WordPad" until I get around to
installing Microsoft Word
instead. It's very similar to Microsoft Office
(including Word of course), better in many respects, and
it's free. You can save your documents in *.doc format
to send off so other people can read them.
I heartily agree. In particular, for those who need to
write mathematics but don't need the resources of (La)TeX,
the OO.o math editor is much handier than MS Word's.
[...]
I use gedit for writing HTML source code -- it's excellent
for that.
I just started using Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) on one of my
notebooks, and so far I quite like gedit as a general
purpose text editor.
Brian
I use gedit constantly for general text editing and it works quite
well. Most of what I do involves removing superfluous material from
other people's presentations and rearranging the text.
It is a feature of gedit (not a bug) that it only uses one font. You
can change the font for a document, but not within the document. That
includes decorations too - you cannot change colors, underline, strike-
through, use bold or italic nor change size. The program knows all
about colors and will do syntax coloring in numerous programming
languages - but the user cannot get at the colors. Gedit clearly was
designed as a programmer's editor rather than a text editor.
The end result is nice and neat and rather monotonous. I like to
emphasize passages and indicate structure overtly and I have very few
tools to work with. I am getting quite good at using paragraph breaks
and indentations to make things stand out. I even use some of the
standard ASCII letters - @, & and such like - as dingbats.
There seems to be nothing in the Unix tradition comparable to Wordpad.
I have thought about writing the tool I want but I haven't had enough
spare time recently.
.
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