Hey, Toby: Yeah, I understand about the line termination differences among the various OS's. But, do you really think he was talking about ASCII files having different end of line designators? Somehow I doubt it. On Sun, 19 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > On Sat, 18 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > > > Is there a text editor, that has macro features, Regular expressions, the > > > ability to save in Windows/Mac/Unix format, etc? > > > > What is Mac format? I've never heard of that. And what is Windows > > format? > > Just taking a guess here. > > As you probably know, DOS/Windows uses a cr lf combination for a newline > character. Ok now bare with me on the next bit cos I always get confused > here. Linux/unix ohnly uses an lf character. Well, the Mac uses a cr > character. Macs have a hard enough time dealing with cr lf combinations, > I know, I know, that's cos they're broken, but there it is. Also, the > hfs file syst em is kind of weird, that's why access to it is still marked > as experimental in the Linux kernel, though it's been around since I think > 2.2 or even late 2.0 days. > > Then again, he could just be talking about MS Office/Claris Works. > > > > Is there powerful text editing, formatting, > scripting? > Of course > there is. Far more powerful than in Windows or Mac. There are > > probably too many to mention, actually. Linux/Unix has the > > proprietary world beat hands down on this one. > > Oooo yeh, I mean, my Slackware distriburtion comes with at least 4 for the > console, and I think there are some more optional ones as well. > > > You certainly don't need them to communicate with anyone, or to > > print out lovely reports, or design lovely e-content for on line > > publishing, etc. > > As a matter of interest, where would you recommend as a good place to > start my education into latex? I mean, which part of the docs? *smile* > > > <snip> > > Cheers. > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
