[plug] Star Office and 5.1 and the registration

[John Summerfield]

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> Christian;
> What about using tex? (LaTeX and its derivatives)
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> It is a typesetting application, used by many academics for publishing 
> their papers.
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> Tex does not include a spell checker, but linux does.

<g> Not a spell checker - there are no witches here.

I've just installed the British version of the spelling checker and 
enabled it under exmh. It's rather garish: I have odd words here 
highlighted with a red background because they're not in its dictionary. 
It's picky about capitalisation too: "British" must have its capital.

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> It comes with Linux (RH, anyway, and, I believe, Slackware)
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> Try man tex.
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> Anne's just told me to suggest it. Her postgrad dip co-ordinator 
> teaches a post grad unit in research/project preparation. Latex is 
> used as the documentation formatting application for the submitted 
> written work for the unit.
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> There is a heap of information on the web, and it goes to each of the 
> platforms.
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> The only thing is that if you search for latex, rather than tex, on 
> the web, you end up at all kinds of deviant sites, in addition to 
> legitimate, rubber oriented sites.
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> It does tables if contents, bibliographies, and everything for an 
> academic written submission.
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> In comes with "templates" to assist in specific layout formats.

There is also a Linux wordprocessor that's latex-based.


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