There is a solution available, but it is not really ready for prime time. It doesn't support many apps, and it tends to crash a lot. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <akp at eznet.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:34 AM Subject: Re: Word processing in linux >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 at eznet.net> > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
