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