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Re: [News] eWeek is Impressed by OpenOffice.org 2.3

* flatfish fired off this tart reply:

> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:30:54 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>> Isn't that, Lyx, what Moses used to create the 2 tablets of stone
>>>> containing the 10 commandments?
>>> 
>>> Nah. LyX (or, more likely, a non-GUI using a programmer's editor and
>>> TeX) is what many Addison-Wesley technical-book authors use to generate
>>> and typeset their books for the publisher.
>>
>>Of course. I've been on the LyX mailing list for years and there are many
>>publishers there, as well as independent book authors (my thesis template is
>>still being downloaded several times a day). LyX is a front end to LaTeX,
>>which is Swiss army knife to these people and the industry as a whole (some
>>use proprietary tools).
>
> You guys wouldn't know a joke if someone put a sign on it.

It was a stupid joke, flatso.

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