Keith,

I own a Mac mini and develop for the Mac as well. I have also installed software originally developed for Linux on Windows (like The GIMP, for instance). I agree that the Mac and Windows can be made to do just about anything you can do with Linux, including running most of the same software. There is a difference between an OS that expects you to do text processing and create software and which encourages you to do so (Linux) and an OS that fights you every step of the way (everything else).

I will also note that you can run a Linux distribution on a Mac using Virtual Box with a very reasonable amount of effort.

By the way, the index is coming along very nicely. Open Office on Linux is an excellent tool for preparing a book to be published on Create Space. Use The GIMP for illustrations and the front and back cover images and in no time at all you have a book ready to publish.

James Simmons

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Keith J. Schultz <schultzk@uni-trier.de> wrote:

Hi All,

In case you do not know Mac OSX is a Unix System with a fancy GUI.

True, the Mac does not come bloated with many Unix tools, yet they can
be installed easily via MacPorts or Fink.

Similarly true, is that you need some intimate knowledge using these tools

and the command line, but this is true of any Linux distribution.

In the end using command line tools on the Mac is no harder than on Linux.

Windows is slightly different as it has no underlying Unix layer, yet it is possible

to get these tools running under Windows or a VM.

regards
Keith.

Am 26.04.2012 um 00:41 schrieb James Simmons:

Bowerbird,

I am a Linux guy. enchant was installed already, as was aspell. For the Mac you might try Macports:

http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=spelling

Some things are much harder on a Mac or Windows than they are on Linux and I think this is going to be an example of that. Fancy text processing using command line tools is one of the areas where Linux excels.

The output file is here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8919415/myfile-words.txt

James Simmons

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