On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 06:13, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Abiword has been removed from testing. This keeps junior-writing out of > sarge because of its dependency on abiword. I will have to remove abiword > from junior-writing, but I would like to replace it with another WYSIWYG > word processor. Would something like kword suffice? > Should I replace abiword with LyX? This will considerably increase the size > of Debian Jr. because to be truly useful, I believe I also need to include > tetex, which is massive. Furthermore, there is the question of whether LyX > is truly a word processor that children can use. LyX is not kids software in my humble opinion. > An alternative is to depend on openoffice, but then we'd have the same > "bloat" issue. > > Are there users here whose children use either LyX or Openoffice? Any > comments on usability of these packages with children? I forget the exact age range of Debian-Jr. I know my 8 year old used Openoffice fairly regularly. At least a few times a semester they have "reports" do that need to be typed. She uses OpenWriter to write and print these reports (though she does garner a lot of help from Dad) -- Derek Neighbors GNU Enterprise http://www.gnuenterprise.org derek@gnue.org Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=dneighbo
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