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Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by jjice » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 7:41 PM UTC

smhenderson wrote: post #63

jjice wrote: post #50

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That's what I was thinking as well. There's also an interview somewhere on YouTube with Ken Thompson talking about this game and he goes off on a bit of a tangent talking about it. Really fun to hear him talk about it.

Yeah, seems they had a lot of fun with it and at the same time they were making history. It's a great story! I've always been quite fascinated by computer history, Unix history in particular.

This is a late reply, but I'd check out Unix: A History and Memoir by Brian Kernighan. It came out late 2019 and it was his recount of what Bell Labs and Unix was like in the early days. So much neat history there - I highly recommend that book.

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by andi999 » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 8:30 PM UTC

pseingatl wrote: post #199

c0nsumer wrote: post #93

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> It works quite well because it is easy to define styles and virtually never apply direct formatting. This is one of the biggest mistakes people make in using Microsoft Office. It has an outstanding style/formatting system in, yet people will still manually mark up headers and whatnot, and then get frustrated when piled-up syntax changes have unexpected results. Define the styles and apply the styles and it works GR…

Styles? Not exactly. Unless the people you're sharing the document with have the same defined styles, your "normal" won't look like theirs, nor will their "body" look like yours, never mind headings, where H1 can look like H2 which looks nothing like what you've got.

Aren't the styles attached to the document?

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by c0nsumer » Thu, Nov 18, 2021, 2:44 AM UTC

andi999 wrote: post #262

pseingatl wrote: post #199

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Styles? Not exactly. Unless the people you're sharing the document with have the same defined styles, your "normal" won't look like theirs, nor will their "body" look like yours, never mind headings, where H1 can look like H2 which looks nothing like what you've got.

Aren't the styles attached to the document?

Yes they are. I'm not sure what the person you're replying to is talking about.