Wordperfect versus LibreOffice for Linux?
 

Hello,

I would like to ask you which one do you prefer wp or libreoffice?

http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthr...r-Ubuntu-10.04
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/LibreOffice/

Best regards

You have an obsession with obsolete stuff. The last Linux version of Wordperfect was released in 2004...

Not obsolete, just applications that are well coded in C, or GNU assembler or are using minimum ressources. Most of my apps are running on Terminal, and I can tell you that they run faster than what you may have ever expected.


WP:
It is true for Linux, quite outdated.
You can run Wine on the last Wordperfect, quite slow.
Libreoffice is really slow, quite same result.

Latex is probably the king of word processing on Linux.

Back in the day, as the hip young things say, I really like WordPerfect, because its logic was linear, just like my thought process. But WP is as dead as a Commodore.

I'd say LO 5.x isn't anywhere near as slow as 4.x was. While still not BLAZINGLY fast, it's now at least what I'd call acceptable.

I went back to OpenOffice after LO 4. Try it! I think the Apache people are doing better than L/O. the OO Gui is super intuitive with some new flyout menus that I really like. I feel it's a bit faster, too.

I haven't tried LO 5 which may be faster. I don't need to. I really like openoffice and I'm staying there

I too stuck with OpenOffice. It works and I'm used to it: that's enough reason for me.

PS Latex is not a word processor. Some of my writing is published (always by those who don't accept Latex!) but most of my files are my own notes. The formating is there to make them clear for me: I don't want to read plain text, let alone text full of mark-up.

Please forgive the slight veer to address LatEx. As mentioned, it's not a word processor. it's a typesetter (formats pages not lines)

That said, in certain applications, it can't be beat. For anything longer than about 500 words I don't use word processors.

If interested, try Lyx, which is a great front end for LatEx docs.

I didn't know WP made a Linux version ~

Just googled it

so it seems a redundent question

LOL! Nobody ever used WordPerfect by choice.

Not quite true ;}

Back in the day I did use it; one of the reasons was that (unlike the *other* big
DOS word processor) it didn't mangle your formatting when you switched to another
printer ... the current windows version of the *other* one still sucks at that to date.

That all said: "LaTeX ;} baby!"

mickeysoft made a $135 Million Canadian "investment" in Corel and shortly thereafter Corel Linux and WordPerfect for Linux disappeared without so much as a whisper.

Edit in: A link to one of the news story.

http://www.forbes.com/2000/10/03/1003corel.html

The rest at the link above.

I quite like LO and think the LO team has done a wonderful job in updating the system over the kludge that was OOo. I don't have to use office suites nearly so much as I used to, but LO has done everything I've asked of it and done it quite nicely (mostly these days I use Calc).

If WP were still viable, I'd take it over MS Word six days a week and twice on Sundays and three times on holidays. But, then, the first word processor I used was DisplayWrite, which was also linear.

Except for those (many) who did :).

Used it for work in the bad old DOS days (employer gave us a choice of WordPerfect or MS Word). The transition to MS Windows narrowed the gap but WP was still more usable. Did I mention the "reveal codes" feature? LO and OO could really take a leaf out of that book.

Eventually it became obvious WP wasn't going anywhere useful so I turned to Star Office, which later gave us LO/OO. Hence my vote for Libre Office.

I like and use LO (LibreOffice) when the need arises, And the Program has been around for many years, BUT and it puzzles me why they have not added page numbers properly yet? it gets set in the header and is only one number, it does not give the actual page number it is, nor does it number one to ... current page number on all of the pages. With WP when I used it the page numbering was great. It'd even let you format it as - page # of total pages #, which looked like this -> 3 of 10 which I like because then a person would know if he or she is missing a page for sure.

I just opened it up and well I don't use it much but but they do not have it in ab easy place to find where page numbers is. because I can't find it LoL

IMOP

LibreOffice cannot even number the pages and its been around for how long? ver 5xxx

WordPerfect is still around and regularly updated, but only available for ms-windows. There is the "standard" edition,
the "professional" edition and the "Legal" edition.

http://www.wordperfect.com/us/product/legal-edition/

A friend in the legal profession and somewhat of a wordsmith, loves it and uses it daily. He says Corel has gone to some lengths to make any documents saved in a ms-word format to be compatible from WP to ms-word.

Used the reveal codes all the time, "back in the day." :)
In LibreOffice it is Ctrl-F10 to show "non-printing characters."

http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?31688-WordPerfect-8.1-for-Linux-Installation-steps-for-Ubuntu-10.04 - dated 2010
Ubuntu-10.04 - EOL.

Both dead as dog poop.
Corel Linux OS Deluxe Second Edition may have it!

Dead for Linux, yes, see post #12, but not for ms-windows, see post #16.

I really don't like "styles" in Word Processors, but I've learned to live with them. I guess I'm just a linear kind of guy.

My biggest complaint about LO and OOo is that creating your own template is not nearly as transparent a process as it ought to be. I finally figured out how to do it and have been dragging my own template around with me for five or six years now. I created it in OOo, but it works quite nicely in LO.

I forgot to mention there is a "Home & Student" edition of WordPerfect, at a greatly reduced cost, and, IIRC, most of the editions are available as a "30 day free trial." That might bring back some old memories.
:D

http://www.wordperfect.com/us/product/home-student/

Speaking as someone who has loosely tracked the TDF suite's progress since its inception (and before that, OpenOffice since its inception), I'm astonished at just how far it has come. And I will also admit that I didn't feel comfortable fully making the switch to LibreOffice until rather recently, well into the 4.x release cycle. But I'm glad I did. My friends and colleagues don't notice any difference with the documents I send them. And I'll go so far as suggesting the performance and stability of LibreOffice 5 now puts it head & shoulders over just about anything else like it.

There are certainly simpler, cleaner options out there. Indeed, there are better tools for some jobs than traditional WYSIWYG office software. But few play the "long game" as well as the LibreOffice team. And in fields like mine where manuscripts and data continue to be exchanged in .docx/.xlsx format, LibreOffice helped fully liberate me from both a commercial Office license and a commercial OS.

The problem is that you CANT write a dissertation using LIBREOFFICE.
It is soooooo much slow.

It is like inkscape.

i dont have time to test drive all the different distros and or apps. I can usually live with whatever word processor comes with my chosen platform. As long as it plays nice with other popular and or mainstream programs thats all i need. If they dont play nice with other file extensions etc, they get kicked out of my sandbox.

i cannot afford microshaft products due to their depletion of my finances and privacy.