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From: Peter Ceresole on 10 Dec 2009 18:41 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> 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. Yes it will, very well. But if Pages will do it, that's the badger... -- Peter
From: Jochem Huhmann on 10 Dec 2009 20:25 Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> writes: > Hylton Boothroyd 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. > > Use Word, centre your paragraphs, type short lines at the top and longer > ones at the bottom, manually inserting carriage returns? But, but... that would be what *PC* users would do. Jochem (who uses banner(6) for seasonal greatings, via email) -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Hylton Boothroyd on 10 Dec 2009 21:08 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.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? > > If `easy' includes a willingness to learn a macro instruction based > non-wysiwyg approach: > > <http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/> 1.3 GB! > and then get the TeXBook by Knuth, which contains instructions on how to > do that sort of thing (there are other approaches). It seems to me that the solution to Exercise 14.18 (setting text in the shape of an isosceles triangle) required Knuth to do most of the calculations himself to get the layout numbers to feed into the algorithm! > TeX can do it. Correct. And it would be beautiful given that the fine spacing would eventually be looked after by TeX. > ... you won't like the learning curve. Correct. It must over 20 years since I did a page that along with the text included an elegant, and entirely TeX/LaTeX generated, normal curve with its axes. And it must be 10 years since I gave up the idea of trying to maintain a personal-computer based TeX installation in physical isolation from other users. That said, if I had 48 hours in every day I might well install mactex (which I guess would double the number of installations in u.c.s.m). -- Hylton
From: Jochem Huhmann on 11 Dec 2009 07:17 hylton.boothroyd(a)null.c0m.invalid (Hylton Boothroyd) writes: > That said, if I had 48 hours in every day I might well install mactex > (which I guess would double the number of installations in u.c.s.m). Well, I'm using TeX (teTeX right now) since literally decades over several machines and operating systems, even for such mundane things as letters... and I'm pretty sure that there are others, too. Even here. That being said, for more ad-hoc things I tend to use Pages more and more. It may suck as a word processor but it's a great DTP app for dummies. And positively beautiful. Returning to fruit-salad syntax-highlighted LaTeX source makes me cringe sometimes now. There! I said it! Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Jon B on 11 Dec 2009 08:44
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > 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 I know I've got it running under 10.5, and fairly sure got some running it under 10.6 too. -- Jon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs. |