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Re: Better WP choices (was Re: Office alternatives)

From ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Better WP choices (was Re: Office alternatives)
Date 2016-10-23 04:17 +0200
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MalcolmO wrote:
> On 2016/10/19 9:01 AM, Lewis wrote:
>> There are at least a thousand better choices for occasional word
>> processing than Open Office.
>
> Well, let's have everyone trot out their favourites. I'd _like_ to use
> something else. When someone emails me a doc file it takes longer for LO
> to load than to read the document! The documents are often just a couple
> dozen words!
>
>> TextEdit in RTF mode is good enough for occasional word
>> processing.
>
> In fact, I've sometimes used it in *text* mode for such. I've give a try
> on RTF and see what I think.
>
>> then you will have Pages
>
> Not those of us running Lion (but I'll soon get a NEW Mac, yay!).
>
>> I wouldn't write a book in Word either.
>
> When I asked people, "How do you do a hanging indent in Word?" the reply
> was always, "What's a hanging indent?"
>
>> Bean is pretty good and free
>
> Thank you. I've DL'd it.

My text-/word processors are in prefered order...

1, NisusWriter Pro 1,5/2.x (commercial program)
For everything requiring more than just plain text. It handles RTF/RTFD, 
Doc/DOCX, tables, inline graphics in RTF/&RTFD (Mac only users), but 
changing suffix from RTF/RTFD to DOC/DOCX will retain graphics even for 
Windows users. - And not to forget - NWP handles *any* kind of language 
from Latin text over any Semittic to any Asian languages in one and the 
same document - i.e. both 1-byte and 2-byte languages (former also known 
as WorldScript 1 and 2). NWP also fully supports ODF file format.

2, Apache OpenOffice 4.x (freeware)
Same reasons and features as above + lot more like presentations, 
complex spreadsheets etc.. 2-Byte languages like the Asian though are 
somewhat more complex to work with than in NWP, but it is possible when 
you once have learned it.

Right now I'm thinking of upgrading Apache OpenOffice to StarOffice for 
Mac in order to get the increased speed towards OpenOffice...

3, Bean 2.45 + 3.2.x (freeware)
I use this mostly as a replacement for TextEdit, but also now and then 
for text documents only in both RTF and DOC/DOCX formats. One could also 
call Bean a "standard word processor for the daily use"...

3a, Lightway iText Pro 3.4 (shareware)
This one I use for minor HTML and other plain text editing.

3b, BBEdit 9.6.x (commercial)
I use BBEdit when I really have to work with complex text editing and 
HTML work. - Also BBEdit is capable of opening nearly any file so it's 
possible to extract common text and other needed data.

4, MarinerWrite 3.9.x (commercial)
Primarely to open and convert older documents to be able to retain 
formatting. MW is very good at that point.

5, MSOffice 2008 (commercial)
If it can't be otherwise....

6. Pages / iWork 09 (commercial)
Well, I don't like Pages, but I'm forced to use it in some translation 
work since the original ('Master') is being delievered in Pages 09 
though I've asked the company to either get NWP or use Apache OpenOffice.

Hereto I have quite a few more both word processors and text editors 
that I seldon use for normal work. these I mostly use for experimental 
use...

cheers, Erik Richard
-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Erik Richard Sørensen <mac-daneRE@MOVEstofanet.dk>
NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com
Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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                Re: Office alternatives Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-19 13:01 +0000
                Better WP choices (was Re: Office alternatives) MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-10-21 23:57 -0400
                Re: Better WP choices (was Re: Office alternatives) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-22 04:47 +0000
                Re: Better WP choices (was Re: Office alternatives) MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-10-24 10:05 -0400
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                Re: Better WP choices MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-10-26 23:00 -0400
                Re: Better WP choices Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-25 05:22 +0000
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                Re: Better WP choices (was Re: Office alternatives) MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-10-24 10:21 -0400
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