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Posted by Tom S.
Jan 7, 2007 at 12:52 PM
Graham Smith wrote:
>Derek
>
>>How are you dealing with the word wrap issue (Section 14)?
>
>The org.mode
>defaults to using longlines.el and I have been using this mode for my experimentation
>with emacs, so haven’t had to think about it that much.
I can’t remember off hand but there’s a keyboard combination which I believe worked by default. Esc-w? Could be wrong - I can’t remember what packages I had loaded by default. Anyway I had it set up so that when I hit the combination, sentences were wrapped (or re-wrapped) in the current paragraph.
Its been a while. I’m enjoying your posts. I lived in this program for about 10 years. It was rare for me to have to leave it for anything major. It can take care of email (I recommend VmMail), news groups, pretty much everything. Its practically bug-free, too. Probably the best program I ever used.
Tom S.
Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 7, 2007 at 01:34 PM
Tom,
>I can’t remember off hand but there’s a keyboard combination which I
>believe worked by default. Esc-w?
Alt q word wraps an existing paragraph, but I can’t find the command to unwrap.
> I lived in this program for about 10 years. It was rare for me to
>have to leave it for anything major. It can take care of email (I recommend VmMail),
>news groups, pretty much everything. Its practically bug-free, too. Probably the
>best program I ever used.
I read people saying things like this years ago and duly installed Xemacs on my windows box. It completely lost me, firstly it installed dozens of programs I didn’t want. Like Cygwin, Ghostscript etc,which made it something like a 400Mb install (I think) and then I couldn’t make it do anything useful. In fact if I remember correctly I couldn’t make it do anything !!! Of course I now understand why the extra programs were installed, but I was annoyed at the time.
I quickly uninstalled it, and remained at a loss as to what was special about it. Obviously from my posts here, I now have a rather different view.
The obvious question is why don’t you still use it?
Graham
Posted by Tom S.
Jan 7, 2007 at 03:22 PM
Graham Smith wrote:
>The
>obvious question is why don’t you still use it?
I occasionally do for text editing. But I live in a Microsoft world and I got tired of fighting it. I pretty much live in Office now.
Its OK. Despite my reservations at the time, I still do get things done. ;)
Tom S.
Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 7, 2007 at 03:47 PM
Tom
>occasionally do for text editing. But I live in a Microsoft world and I got tired of
>fighting it. I pretty much live in Office now.
Don’t we all, and for the most part I too have given up, but I also do a lot of work where it doesn’t matter what I use, and I am always looking for something that bit more efficient and versatile than MSs offerings.
I am particularly impressed with Lyx, as I regularly see hours and days wasted trying to get the formatting right in Word, and it still not look right even when it goes out the door.
Being able to let the technical staff focus on the writing and letting Lyx look after the formatting seems one of the most promising business productivity tools I have ever come across. Of course once I have used it more extensively, I may not be so impressed.
Graham
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 8, 2007 at 04:57 PM
Graham (and Tom),
Thanks for your comments about the word wrap issue. Using longlines.el seems to be the way to go. I’ll experiment with any issues it may create when the time comes.
> Having said that, I bought Crossover office when I was using Linux and I had MSoffice running happily in Linux. Didn’t try anything else, and not all programs work with crossover office as it is only emulating Windows. But, of course there are also programs like Win4lin that run Windows inside Linux.
Something like this could be the answer. I’ve heard reports that Zoot runs under Win4lin (but not under Wine, unfortunately).
> Good luck with your foray into Lyx and emacs
Thanks. I’m looking forward to it.
Derek