wetterau
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Joined: July 2004 |
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Posted: Sep. 06 2004,06:09 |
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Yes, this works perfectly. I put "rmmod soundcore" and the four modprobe commands in /opt/bootlocal.sh and now have sound after booting. Great. Thanks again.
On another topic, if there are any writers out there, you might be interested in my experience with DSL. I've tried many combinations of Ted, AbiWord, vim, and ooWriter, searching for the simplest tool that will do the job efficiently. Ted is excellent for short work, but you are limited to rtf (no curly quotes, em dashes). The export out to Word or Writer works fairly well, but the import is awkward. Curly quotes are not reproducible. You have to do a lot of screwing around with search & replace. I think a few Perl routines could take care of this (once Ted was set up with a font that includes em dashes and curly quotes), but it is a nuisance.
AbiWord works well and has a wider import/export choice, but it also chokes on curly quotes. On their forum, they had many discussions about this. The general problem of non-standard characters is complicated, especially when you consider different languages and unlimited undo, redo, etc.
Both Ted and AbiWord work less well on longer documents (novel length) than ooWriter, which seems to have industrial strength display routines. ooWriter also has a reasonable smart (curly) quote and em dash substitution algorithm. I was hoping to get away with using a simpler wp, but I'm back to ooWriter on my present novel.
LyX is also a contender. It produces the best printed output of all the word processors (equal to that of adobe pagemaker) and has by far the best mathematical expression editor (if you are doing scientific/technical writing). I wrote two novels with it, but it was an endless hassle converting to word format for publishers. You lose little formatting details and have to proofread everything twice. Revisions force you to go through this multiple times. Too bad. It's a great wp, although there is no dsl package yet.
I programmed for a living for years, so I'm used to programming text editors and would just as soon use one as use a formatting word processor. But the extra work involved in formatting the italics, curly quotes, etc, expected by publishers outweighs (for me) the initial simplicity, robustness, and ascii universality of the programming editor.
So, I came back to ooWriter and am happy that DSL supports it. Once loaded, ooWriter is fast and very solid, much better than MS Word, in my view. If I'm in the boondocks and running from a live CD or key drive, Ted will get me through fine.
(My books are available free in five different ebook formats at www.memoware.com if anyone is interested. Just search on "wetterau")
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