Re: Replacement for Abiword: LyX? Openoffice?
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:55:51AM -0700, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> Would something like kword suffice?
I'm still trying to stay impartial re KDE/Gnome. The fanout for
dependencies is quite large.
> LyX is not kids software in my humble opinion.
Maybe not. But neither are emacs nor vim. With some guidance, children of
different ages can use all three. It depends, I guess, on what your goals
are.
> 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)
Neat. I just wish it weren't so huge.
You know, though, I think this is the showstopper. It appears to be in
contrib, not main as I had thought.
Ben
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