Star Office 5.2 [was Re: Plea for help]

[smith at missioncriticallinux.com (Jeffry Smith)]

Do you know if Applix's RTF is less bloated (ok, significanly less
bloated) than MS's?  Also, I've noticed that MS Word, Applix, SO, &
Wordperfect all manage to interpret RTF differently.  A LaTeX
(Lyx/KLyx/GtkLyx [see sourceforge]) system would be better, but MS
Office doesn't do that, & too many people use MS Office.  

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:

> In a message dated: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:27:35 EDT
> Jeffry Smith said:
> 
> >I've found Applix 5.0 to be excellent at reading Word documents.  My 
> >only problem is that it doesn't save them as doc format (exports via 
> >rtf).  Their help also seems to be better than StarOffice.   
> 
> YOU SHOULDN'T BE SAVING TO DOC FORMAT, IT"S PROPRIETARY!!!!!!!
> 
> Export to RTF, though it's still a proprietary format, MS will read it 
> correctly, as will just about everything else.
> 
> (If you must, you can export to Word 2.0 doc format, and every version of Word 
> since then will be able to import it.)
> 

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