Mac OS Back-Compatibility [Was Re: [LINK] Microsoft]

[Alan L Tyree]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 15:46:48 +1000
Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:

> Eleanor Lister <eleanor at pacific.net.au> wrote:
> >  ...  an iBook G4 running OS-X and has X11 support as well ... it's 
> >quite nice, IMHO, and i use OpenOffice 2.0 on it, never crashes, i 
> >don't even know what a crash would look like.
> 
> The trials with OpenOffice 1.0 were very disappointing.  And Neo was 
> so slow that I abandoned that idea very quickly.  (I'm on a twin 
> 867MHz desktop, and just moved from a 5-year-old portable to a new 
> 12-inch - which had a broken or twisted Ethernet port and already has 
> several bruises on the top cover).

Hi Roger,
OO 2.0 is much better if you are a fan of the big wordprocessor stuff.
For a lot of things, I find Abiword to be more than adequate. Very fast
and clean.

I am not a fan of the big wordprocessors except for small tasks. I use
LaTeX along with emacs in order to get multiple indexes (normal index,
table of cases, table of statutes) automatically and painlessly
organised for large projects. Lyx is a terrific item, but I haven't
worked out the multiple index problem yet.

On Apple stuff generally: I bought a new G4 iBook with Tiger. I tried
using it for a few months, but now it runs Ubuntu. Sleep is no problem
and it generally just works.

Alan

> 
> I'd hoped by now to be entirely XML-based internally, with 
> DTDs/schemas out to print and printlike formats (RTF, PDF) and out to 
> the Web (XHTML).  No such luck.
> 
> But I haven't checked out OpenOffice 2.0 yet.
> 
> So its user interface is workable?
> 
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