Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

[Andreas von Heydwolff <pirmin2@gmx.net>]

Thanks for all the contributions. I am glad the thread moved also to the 
lack of a mail merge capable word processor apart from SO. WP8 can do 
merges but has no address book included, at least the download version I 
 have, but I forgot that merges are possible with the little data base 
equivalent of *.dat files in WP. Of course WP has very fine and 
controllable layout options and footnotes/endnotes that stick and do not 
tumble all over the place like in Word which is important in scientific 
writing.

However, what indeed lacks in Linux is a word processor that can pull 
its addresses or references from a MySQL database. This plus some 
satisfactory Word compatibility would be a strong argument in favor of 
using such a word processor in the educational field. Just imagine 
downloading Medline references into a library database from which your 
word processor pulls them into footnotes. This is possbile with the 
other OS but why not in Linux? I always thought myself this cannot be 
too difficult to implement but I do not prgram myself, so I may be 
misktaken.

Andreas