Re: [tlug] CrossOver Office

["Micheal E Cooper" <mecooper@example.com>]

I wasn't aware that the English version of Office reads and allows input of
Japanese. What do they do about Ruby text (furigana) and vertical writing, I
wonder. For that matter, can Linux do those things?

Micheal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Q" <jq@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [tlug] CrossOver Office


> Drew Poulin (poulin@example.com) wrote:
>
> > entire Windows OS.  I doubt if it runs the Japanese version of MS Office
yet, but it
>
> But the English version of Office displays Japanese perfectly well, and
> does Japanese input, too (with MS-IME; who knows if crossover plugin
> will leap the very tall building of letting you use kinput2 with
> MS Office?), so if your needs are merely to read Japanese-language
> MS Word documents, you may be covered.  If you have people who need
> a localized version of the application itself, that may be different.
>
> WRT Abiword at all, while I do not have to deal with highly complex
> MS Office documents [1], and happily rarely have to deal with them
> at all, I have had no problems with correctly reading MS Word and Excel
> documents with Abiword and Gnumeric.  I understand KDE Office also does
> a good job, but I haven't tried it myself yet.
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] Particularly, no tables.
>
>