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OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released
OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released
Posted Oct 13, 2006 15:27 UTC (Fri) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723)Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released
The LaTeX connexion is highly welcome. Nothing replace TeX/LaTeX
yet for obtaining really professional quality typesetting.
TeX is one of the few successful early free softwares still in use,
dating from the 80's.
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OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released
Posted Oct 13, 2006 17:42 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
There's a lot of free software from the 80's still in use: GCC, vi and Emacs, and many of the basic Unix utilities are that old.
OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released
Posted Oct 13, 2006 18:26 UTC (Fri) by branden (subscriber, #7029) [Link]
There's a lot of free software from the 80's still in use: GCC, vi and Emacs, and many of the basic Unix utilities are that old.
And the X Window System...
OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released
Posted Oct 13, 2006 21:32 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Emacs, Vi (or rather ViM) and even GCC evolved - today's versions are quite different from version from 80's. TeX is still the same. I have mixed feelings about this: it means program is very-very good (and that's true) but it also means it has a lot of unfixed ugly bugs/features (and that's also true)...
Yes, I know that "TeX is bug-free". And while it's not 100% true it's almost true - if you consider only coding bugs. All if it's strange and stupid cases are documented thus they are not considered bugs - but they are still annoying...
Compatibility
Posted Oct 16, 2006 5:35 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]
TeX is still the same. I have mixed feelings about this: it means program is very-very good (and that's true) but it also means it has a lot of unfixed ugly bugs/features (and that's also true)...It also means that old TeX documents can be formatted in newer TeX releases without having to modify them, a significant advantage. (Although I have occasionally had to slightly change some old docs because of changes in the LaTeX macro package).