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From: Adrian Tuddenham on 10 Dec 2009 04:50 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2009-12-10, Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote: > > Hylton Boothroyd <hylton.boothroyd(a)null.c0m.invalid> wrote: > > > >> Can anyone point me to an application, preferably free, that makes it > >> easy to create plain text to take up all the space in an upright > >> isosceles triangle? > >> > >> OS 10.4.11, MS Office 2004. > >> > >> We had a rush of blood to the head and chose triangular Christmas cards! > >> It seems that MS Office has been useless for that sort of thing since > >> Office 98. > > > > Claris Works 4 did it in a few seconds: > > http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/other/images/Picture1.gif > > > > ...but sadly you won't be able to run it on OS 10.4 > > Won't it run under Classic? I thought it would only run up to 10.3, then they screwed it up - but I may be mistaken, so it is worth a try. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk
From: Rowland McDonnell on 10 Dec 2009 09:52 Hylton Boothroyd <hylton.boothroyd(a)null.c0m.invalid> wrote: > Can anyone point me to an application, preferably free, that makes it > easy to create plain text to take up all the space in an upright > isosceles triangle? If `easy' includes a willingness to learn a macro instruction based non-wysiwyg approach: <http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/> and then get the TeXBook by Knuth, which contains instructions on how to do that sort of thing (there are other approaches). > OS 10.4.11, MS Office 2004. > > We had a rush of blood to the head and chose triangular Christmas cards! > It seems that MS Office has been useless for that sort of thing since > Office 98. TeX can do it. You might not like the learning curve.[1] Rowland. [1] No, I'm lying: you won't like the learning curve. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Adrian Tuddenham on 10 Dec 2009 10:13 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote: > > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > > > Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote: > > > > Hylton Boothroyd <hylton.boothroyd(a)null.c0m.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > >> Can anyone point me to an application, preferably free, that makes it > > > >> easy to create plain text to take up all the space in an upright > > > >> isosceles triangle? > > > >> > > > >> OS 10.4.11, MS Office 2004. > > > >> > > > We had a rush of blood to the head and chose triangular Christmas cards! > > > >> It seems that MS Office has been useless for that sort of thing since > > > >> Office 98. > > > > > > > > Claris Works 4 did it in a few seconds: > > > > http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/other/images/Picture1.gif > > > > > > > > ...but sadly you won't be able to run it on OS 10.4 > > > > > > Won't it run under Classic? > > > > I thought it would only run up to 10.3, then they screwed it up - but I > > may be mistaken, so it is worth a try. > > I could find out in a minute to two, but can't be bothered. > > However: can't the job be done using AppleWorks 6? Very likely, but will that run under OS 10.4?. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk
From: Jim on 10 Dec 2009 10:16 On 2009-12-10, Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > Claris Works 4 did it in a few seconds: >> > > > http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/other/images/Picture1.gif >> > > > >> > > > ...but sadly you won't be able to run it on OS 10.4 >> > > >> > > Won't it run under Classic? >> > >> > I thought it would only run up to 10.3, then they screwed it up - but I >> > may be mistaken, so it is worth a try. >> >> I could find out in a minute to two, but can't be bothered. >> >> However: can't the job be done using AppleWorks 6? > > Very likely, but will that run under OS 10.4?. Dim and distant memory here, but: yes, I think it will. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "A Microsoft spokesman said: "We spent five years and $350million developing a system that would make it really easy for us not to give you your money back." The Daily Mash
From: Rowland McDonnell on 10 Dec 2009 11:24
Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote: [snip] > > > > > Claris Works 4 did it in a few seconds: > > > > > http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/other/images/Picture1.gif > > > > > > > > > > ...but sadly you won't be able to run it on OS 10.4 > > > > > > > > Won't it run under Classic? > > > > > > I thought it would only run up to 10.3, then they screwed it up - but I > > > may be mistaken, so it is worth a try. > > > > I could find out in a minute to two, but can't be bothered. 12 mounted discs later[1], and I found out. Claris Works 4 installs and runs under Classic on MacOS X 10.4.11. However, it's not possible for me to print from Classic at all. Never did work that one out, so CW 4 isn't useful for me. Does anyone here know how to get printing working from Classic? (never did get much use out of CW 4, which I paid for. The Claris Works drawing and writing modules are nothing like as useful as MacWrite II and MacDraw II under System 6. It's one of the reasons I became very disillusioned with commercial software - a lot of it's not getting better, it's getting worse as it `develops') > > However: can't the job be done using AppleWorks 6? > > Very likely, but will that run under OS 10.4?. It runs under MacOS X 10.6.2, right here, right now (really, just launched it to make sure nothing odd's gone on lately). No worries at all about 10.4.11 either (yep, I've used AW under 10.4.11 rather a lot). Sometimes, AW 6 does have a sulk and won't run - crashing on take-off. Trashing ~/Documents/Appleworks User Data seems to be the fix. (and why oh why oh why can't they put it in ~/Library/Application Support/AppleWorks User Data? Or at least ~/Appleworks User Data? Pfft.) Rowland. [1] Didn't know where it was, so fired up all external discs connected to our IntelMac. That's four extra. Searched, and while that was going on, I went to the next door iLamp and told it to connect to the IntelMac and mount all discs. Then I found CW 4, copied it to the iLamp, decompressed, and mounted all six install disc images. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |