Re: Replacement for Abiword: LyX? Openoffice?

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, 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.
Do you think that the only RC-bug (#213660) which is even tagged patch and
the package is actively maintained needs reaction? I guess all other dependancies
(according to http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=abiword will be solved
before Sarge release).

> 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.
To be honest I try to teach my son LaTeX for didactical purpose.  Once somebody
knows logical markup he is able to use any textprocessor.

Kind regards

          Andreas.