[CLUE-Tech] How to view MS Word docs in Linux
Ryan Kirkpatrick
ug at rkirkpat.net
Tue Aug 21 19:11:18 MDT 2001
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Leaving the spreadsheet issue for a different thread, in the short term,
> I could convert my resume to pdf, but then I have the question of
> editing it. TeX seems like too big a hammer. Having something simple, to
> do just page headers, bold/underline, typeface selection, indentation,
> wrapping, and margins would fill the bill quite well, I think.
> Any suggestions?
I would recommend LyX, which is a WYSIWYM (what you see is what
you mean) front end for LaTeX. I have used it extensively for everything
from reports to my resume as well, and it quite easy to use. Not quite as
fine grain control over the page layout as Word, but then again it behaves
more sanely than Word. :)
Anyway, you can find out more at www.lyx.org. TTYL.
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From: Matt Gushee <mgushee at peakpeak.com>
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Subject: [CLUE-Tech] DocBook (was How to view MS Word docs in Linux)
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Brandon N writes:
> It's not the simpliest process around, but I'm starting to write all my
> documents in DocBook xml (or SGML) format. I can then create pdf,
> MSword (with and additional loop to jump through) TeX, or html from
> that. It takes a bit to learn it, but writing the XML isn't the hard
> part, it's learning how to set up the converstion tools (Jade or
> OpenJade).
Yeah. I wouldn't say setting up the tools is hard, but writing
stylesheets can be. If you're using DocBook, you can use Norm
Walsh's DocBook stylesheets (available at http://nwalsh.com). With
other DTDs, you'd probably have to roll your own.
And let's not gloss over the distinction between SGML and XML,
either. While it doesn't greatly affect the process of creating
documents (unless you want to use some of the more obscure features
of SGML), it makes a lot of difference in what tools and languages you
can use for formatting the output.
OpenJade (or its predecessor Jade) is the main open source tool for
formatting SGML; it uses a style language called DSSSL, which has very
sophisticated page layout capabilities but is definitely not for the
faint of heart (though if you have a solid grasp of Scheme or Lisp,
that's a good start). There are about 2 people in the world who
completely understand DSSSL: one is James Clark, the author of Jade
and the DSSSL standard, the other is the above-mentioned Norm Walsh,
who wrote the DocBook book. Furthermore there isn't a whole lot you
can do with the output, since DSSSL has never really caught on. Jade,
last I knew, had output processors for HTML, RTF, and TeX, but I
wasn't thrilled with their quality.
If you use XML, in theory your print formatting capabilities are more
limited, but in reality there's a much wider variety of tools
available and they are generally easier to use.
To output HTML you can use XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformation
Language). There are a number of good open source XSLT processors
available, including:
Saxon -- http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/
Xalan -- http://xml.apache.org/
4XSLT (part of 4suite) -- http://www.4suite.org/
libxslt (an optional part of GNOME)
For print you can use XSLT + XSL. Tools include FOP
(http://xml.apache.org), and ... one or two others.
Then again, XSLT, although a good deal simpler than DSSSL, is no walk
in the park either. It also, like DSSSL, has functional programming
roots (Lisp/Scheme/etc.). If you're comfortable with a normal
programming language, you might try the following approach:
Obtain:
A SAX* implementation and
a print rendering library
... in the language of your choice. For example, if you
like Python like I do, you might use PyXML
(pyxml.sourceforge.net) as your SAX implementation and
ReportLab (www.reportlab.com) to generate PDF.
* SAX: Simple API for XML. It's a stream-based processing model where
document contents generate events (e.g., startElement, endElement,
etc.).
Best of luck.
Matt Gushee
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:39:48 -0600
From: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net>
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Subject: [CLUE-Tech] iptables?
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Is anyone using iptables on 2.4.X? I have a "theorectical" question.
I'm trying to get nazi on a firewall I'm helping with. I've got this:
################# iptables ############################
# first chain is for allowing established and related connections
/sbin/iptables -N first
/sbin/iptables -A first -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
# this is a rule to let all my local traffic through
/sbin/iptables -N local
/sbin/iptables -A local -m state --state NEW -i ! eth0 -j ACCEPT
# I'm using logging and reject with my cleanup rule, these are both
# optional modules
/sbin/iptables -N cleanup
/sbin/iptables -A cleanup -j LOG --log-prefix "Firewall " --log-level debug
# /sbin/iptables -A cleanup -j LOG
/sbin/iptables -A cleanup -j REJECT
#
# Lets initialize the chain
#
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -j first
.
.
.
Some rules to allow ssh and www in from the outside
.
.
.
#
# allows local
#
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -j local
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -j cleanup
/sbin/iptables -P INPUT DROP
#/sbin/iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
# FORWARD chain only allows local traffic
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j first
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j local
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j cleanup
/sbin/iptables -P FORWARD DROP
This box is also running a squid server. I want users behind the firewall
to be able to hit the proxy server and do www stuffs, but I don't want
them to be able to bypass the proxy server, but I'd like to be able to
ssh out also. In otherwords, block all direct outbound traffic except
ssh, but allow the internal 192.168.0.X subnet to connec to the squid
server and allow the squid server to go out.
Anyone have a quick rundown on the rules for the ssh out part?
Anyone using squid ACL's for address blocking? We're sure these middle
schoolers don't need to be going to *sex*, *XXX* etc. I've got a
hand maintained wall up now, but it's ugly and if I can force the squid
and get squid to do ACL's with wildcards it'll be alot easier.
Robert
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