From phma@oltronics.net Sun Mar 25 15:12:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 25 Mar 2001 23:12:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 63827 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2001 23:12:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2001 23:12:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.28) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 00:13:35 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id B447D3C55B; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:07:47 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Marketing lojban Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:57:35 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010322163910.00b9dd60@127.0.0.1> <4.3.2.7.2.20010324123433.00b39d20@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010324123433.00b39d20@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032518074700.25814@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: >>Microsoft Word is as foreign to a Unix user as TeX is to a Windows user. Why >>not convert it to AbiWord, so that everyone can read it? > >Never heard of it, and I wouldn't know how to read it. And I don't have >time to convert anything, much less learn how, with several higher priority >things going undone. You can get it from http://www.abisource.com for several Unices (compile the source if yours isn't listed), Windows, QNX, Be, and soon Mac. It can read MS Word files, though it lost a few things last time I tried. It can also write TeX, though it loses some formatting. phma