Martin Skjöldebrand <shieldfire(a)gmail.com> writes:
On Monday 22 July 2013 13.51.04 lee wrote:
>
> LaTeX works great for what I'm doing, and I didn't bother to install LO
> on Fedora. Give it ten years or so, and LO might be usable.
Works great is completely dependent on what you want to do. For daily writing
of office documents it requires an - for me - undefendable amount of fiddling
getting it setup properly, so no - LaTex is not an alternative.
Indeed, some things can be rather difficult to do with LaTeX and/or
require going to such lengths that it's just so much easier to use
something like LO.
However, I've seen other having reported crashes on dialog boxes,
so it's a
bit weird no one here has had the same experience ... I might just be unlucky
I guess .... =(
Perhaps you can try another version? IIRC they used to make some
downloadable archives --- perhaps that works better what currently is in
Fedora?
Otherwise LO works nicely, although I miss the ribbon interface from
MS Office
(I know, lots of people don't).
I always missed the database part.
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Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)