this is a little off-topic, but i thought some of the writers out there might be able to help me. i love os x, but desperately miss the program i used on my pc...
Lawrence, This may not be the answer you're looking for, but to me we are now in a different era, in which all those local databases are somewhat becoming of...
Your beloved Roget is available online thanks to the Bartleby text project: http://www.bartleby.com/62/ Robert Siegle Department of English Virginia Tech...
Robert Siegle
rsiegle@...
Oct 1, 2004 1:39 pm
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Lawrence, The most similar option for offline work is the Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite 2005 DVD/CD - currently going for $49.95 at ...
Ruben R. Puentedura
rubenrp@...
Oct 1, 2004 1:52 pm
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... And an internet connection ... jem -- Jan Erik Moström www.mostrom.pp.se...
Lawrence, "MS Bookshelf" had from the beginning a Macintosh version, which I had been using for several years. It was fine, though a little too much like an...
... I sure am glad I have OED on CD ROM. It may have been put out sometime in 1991, but it still works in Classic. That annual subscription rate is a ...
... I suggest you take a look at www.wikipedia.org, which I professionally think is the best online encyclopedia there is these days. It is not only very...
... Yeah, but it's a certain difference sitting and writing and needing to connect using a modem before being able to actually look something up. Then it's...
Hi everyone, I'm just loitering, but I want to register an enthusiastic affirmation of Ralph Lombreglia's Mellel outliner suggestions (his grocery list, ...
... <snip> ... I am sorry to admit, that about the only thing I use VirtualPC for is to use Microsoft Encarta (which includes bookshelf). I have tried other...
... I have it, and I hate it. Horrible and slow Java UI, Horrible UI for articles (you try to print a full articles with all it's sections...), and horrible...
Hi to all: ... Yes, this could be useful to avoid mess of windows on screen. The other reason could be that one application fits all your needs or is the only...
Hi to all: ... Thank you very much. Is now on my Bookmark menu. The references books ther are not based on my native language (Slovene), but nevertheless more...
Since starting to use Mellel, I have also been dabbling with SpellCatcherX. A system-wide spell checker, with rapid, integrated dictionary and thesaurus...
Hi everyone, I've needed a way to format equations and have just started using Equation Services: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/EquationService/ Although it...
... Hmmm, you don't want to hear thid, but MS Office 2004 comes with a new Reference Tool that includes Encarta/Thesaurus. OSX Sherlock also includes a...
Shoshannah, While I certainly won't defend the - mediocre at best - interface for Britannica, I would have to differ politely, but strongly, with your ...
Ruben R. Puentedura
rubenrp@...
Oct 2, 2004 12:21 am
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Thank you, Kerry. The points of mine that you cite were the ones that talked about directly creating "auto-numbering flow" items by simply typing in the...
I've found this discussion of considerable value. Do we have any central place (Redlex?) where a brief list of the best resources could be posted? I suppose...
I was collecting these for myself, but I thought they might be useful to others. Here is the summary of suggestions so far, and a couple of my own. from Clytie...
... Once you get used to it, Expose is a viable alternative to tabbed windows and you don't have to give up screen space to the line of tabs. In addition, it...
Jim Harrison
jhrsn@...
Oct 2, 2004 2:39 pm
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... Yes, exactly. The ease of use of both OO, and Word, for that matter is that one never leaves the writing space; one simply collapses or expands those ...
John Laudun
jlaudun@...
Oct 2, 2004 5:06 pm
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... me. Were ... Indeed. If Mellel were to build a powerful yet easy-to-use outliner on top of itself -- a word processor far far better than anything out ...
Hi, I think, that there are some semantic problems with the various functions of Mellel. The outliner is not an outliner in the usual sense. On the other hand,...
Kerry, I agree that allowing direct pasting from ES into Mellel would be better than using the pasteboard. However I have tried as you say with ES pasting the...
J.F. Arotxa
jfarotxa@...
Oct 2, 2004 8:28 pm
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... I disagree. I think this "bloat" term is another one of those meaningless buzzwords. It implies vague evilness. What you want is something that is...
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