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Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
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On 12/29/24 1:38 AM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:26:49 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> 
>> The only thing I've ever used Office for is essays and the occasional
>> presentation. I've said it before: even AbiWord is more than enough for
>> me. If I recall correctly, AbiWord had every feature I needed to write
>> university essays and I actually became quite loyal to the program
>> because it bailed me out when I had no other program to write with. It's
>> pretty useless for the advanced Office files we all receive from others,
>> but it's spectacular with any new document you might want to produce.
>> The bonus is that it's fast as heck in 2024. Hell, it was fast and light
>> as heck even in 2002 or whatever year it was.
> 
> Essays in my school days generally involve a pen and 'blue book' for exams
> or a cheap manual typewriter in some cases. 

We are all very quickly dating ourselves to the pre-digital era.


> The first word processor I was
> exposed to was WordStar that was bundled on a CP/M system, over ten years
> later. It was serviceable as a programming editor. Vim was in the future
> and vi, prior to improvement, was primitive.


For mainframe based, I migrated to JOVE over VI, as it wasn't for 
programming and JOVE was IMO better suited for business communications.


> In later years any documentation I did was with Vim. The process was we
> would try to dig up a past document that was sort of like the new
> interface. I'd make notes on it, the tech writer would make it pretty, I
> would review it, rinse and repeat. Over time I became convinced the
> clients seldom read the final product anyway.

I'm oversimplifying, but as a broad sweeping statement, I'd say that 
monospaced fonts are better for writing code, whereas proportional fonts 
are better for human-based reading of narrative.


-hh