At 4:47 AM +0100 15/02/11, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
>
>I have been looking at the Papyrus eventually 
>for a Danish translation... And my German is 
>about as good as my English, but not for a 
>translation from German computer language into 
>English - hardly from German to Danish. Computer 
>expressions are so far from the English as 
>Danish is from Greek..-)

But that's often the point, Erik -- learn some 
terms and everything falls into place. Australia 
offers a range of "professional English" courses 
to skilled immigrants whose mother tongue is not 
English. Or used to do.
the courses were only an hour or two a day for 
some weeks. (They are expected to spend more than 
an hour or two in private study, of course.)

>I wrote to my contact and asked why on earth 
>they didn't either use OpenOffice or NisusWriter 
>Pro for that work, but Pages? Huh! I've had so 
>many problems making this translation that you 
>won't belive it.

Apple talks a lot about Pages and Word 
compatibility but there seems to be plenty of 
evidence out there that Pages is not nearly as 
compatible with Word as Apple seems to imply.

>>>OK, there of course still are the three large 
>>>compeditors - NeoOffice, OpenOffice and 
>>>StarOffice. These three are doing great and as 
>>>far as I'm aware of now have more than a 1/3 
>>>of the market totally seen on all platforms. I 
>>>use the OpenOffice on both Mac and Windows...

I have NeoOffice on board. It differs in detail 
from OpenOffice, and seems to work better for me.

I don't have Windows, of course. However, I have 
just upgraded Parallels again with a view to 
installing Windows so I can use one of those "go 
anywhere" wireless Internet dongles when I am in 
Papua New Guinea. They have a service which I am 
told works quite well, but it only runs on 
Windows. The joke is that there is a picture of a 
MacBook on the dongle box!  :)

Intuitively, getting Windows installed so I can 
go on the internet sounds like exactly the wrong 
thing to do given the vulnerability of Windows 
connections. I suppose I'll have to worry about a 
firewall and whatnot.
sigh!

Best regards

Geoffrey Heard
The Ad-Doctor-Online
http://www.ad-doctor-online.com