Harvard Mathematics Department : Computing: Word

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Office programs in Unix (OS X or Linux):
- Apple IWork Pages (Word processor), Keynote (Presentation software) from Apple
- Microsoft Office for OS X
- Abiword (Word processor)
- Gnumeric (Spreadsheet)
- Openoffice (Office Suite)
- Neooffice (Office Suite for Mac)
- Softmaker Textmaker (word processor) and Planmaker (spreadsheet)
- The native OS X TextEdit in Abel can open MS Word documents (since Tiger).
- Mellel (wordprocessor for OS X)
- Bean (lightwight wordprocessor for OS X)
Conversion of Word documents to ASCII Text
- Essentially all office applications allow to save the document as text.
- The OS X application "TextEdit" allows to open word documents.
- wvWare, a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It is installed on many linux system.
```
         wvText  worddocument.doc  textdocument.txt
       
```
- The unix program "strings" allows to extract everything readable in the word document.
```
         strings  worddocument.doc > textdocument.txt
       
```
LaTeX helper programs
- Equationeditor (LaTeX plugin for Keynote)
- LatexEquation (LaTeX plugin for Open Office)
- TexPoint" (LaTeX plugin for Powerpoint)
Start with Staroffice on Solaris
```
starofficesetup
```
The installation will create a folder in your directory. You find there a program "soffice".
Staroffice files on Abel are located in the directory /usr/local/vendor/staroffice6.0.

Simplicity, Clarity, Generality B.W. Kernighan, R. Pike, in "The Practice of Programming".