I was under the impression that Gnome was ready, at least that is the impression I have gotten from listening to things like the review on ACB Radio's Main Menu in 2003. Am I mistaken? ----- Original Message ----- From: "akp" <akp@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:32 AM Subject: Word processing in linux > Hi Tylor, > > Hmmmm, well there isn't much you can do right now. Star Office > requires X-Windows, and the Gnome desktop is not ready for prime-time > yet. You could do worse than to learn Emacs and LaTeX. As for losing > the formatting, that's part of the territory. I'd write all my stuff > in emacs, then transfer it to MSWord when I got to school. You could > do the final formatting there. BTW, formatting has two T's, short > vowel and word ending in ING. Double T keeps the vowel short! > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. > Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >