From: Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:47:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5117EB3A.7090101@meahan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.wsau601upw6hmh@ishamid-pc>
On 02/10/2013 12:07 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
>
> I never heard of retext before, so I spent some time with it... thanks
> for the reference! Unicode support seems solid, even bidi (via Qt).
>
> OTOH it's waaay too geeky for the average citizen to install -- too
> many steps (python, pyqt,...), have to search for your .conf file
> through a python interpreter and you still can't find it after that
> etc. Then in Windows it turns out to be an .ini file, not a .conf
> file! Then you have to make a .bat file to start it with a mouse
> click, etc.
>
I'm spoiled by Linux:
prompt$ sudo apt-get install retext
installs ReText and all dependencies.//If you must have a GUI, Synaptic
or even Ubuntu Software Center make it pretty easy by hiding the apt
infrastructure. They will still auto-load all dependencies. I like GUI
stuff but I've been using computers from before there even was a command
line so command lines are not scary for /me/. Yes, I'm that old./
Once in a while/ Linux is easier to use than Windows. ;-)
Glad you found something that works well.
--
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-10 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-30 19:31 Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt Bill Meahan
2013-01-30 19:45 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2013-01-30 20:08 ` Bill Meahan
2013-01-30 21:12 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-01-30 21:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-01-30 22:07 ` Bill Meahan
2013-01-30 21:48 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2013-01-30 22:13 ` [***SPAM***] " Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2013-01-30 23:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-01-30 23:54 ` Bill Meahan
2013-01-31 8:51 ` Alan BRASLAU
2013-01-31 10:02 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2013-01-30 20:59 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2013-01-31 9:19 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-01-31 21:03 ` Bill Meahan
2013-02-09 16:51 ` Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt) Bill Meahan
2013-02-09 23:44 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-02-10 15:38 ` Bill Meahan
2013-02-10 17:07 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2013-02-10 18:47 ` Bill Meahan [this message]
2013-02-10 19:21 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
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