Thansk for the info I will try that, you know it almost server me right using a big monster like Star Office when all I need to do is write an academic paper. - Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn T. Rutledge To: Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 2:13 PM Subject: Re: JRE > On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 02:13:07PM -0700, Joel Dudley wrote: > > patience today. I got so frustrated I am now going to type my paper in > > Office 97 on my Game Machine (please forgive me for my momentary weakness). > > You should try LyX. It's fast, and quite good for academic papers I > suspect. It doesn't let you tweak everything as readily as MS Word > but tries to do the right thing on its own, and supports all the features > needed for papers - footnotes, bibliography, table of contents, mathematical > equations, etc. I recommend going through the tutorial that comes with > it. > > Of course an even geekier geek would bypass all the GUI stuff and write > TeX by hand. :-) I don't do that yet but might learn to eventually. > > -- > _______ Shawn T. Rutledge / KB7PWD ecloud@bigfoot.com > (_ | |_) http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud kb7pwd@kb7pwd.ampr.org > __) | | \________________________________________________________________ > Get money for spare CPU cycles at http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=5903 > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss