Re: Replacement for Abiword: LyX? Openoffice?

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:13, 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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 *know* that *all* children will whine, moan, complain, and state
that the world is coming to an end, but why not text-mode word 
processors?  WordStar served me quite well in University.  (Yes, I'm
officially a geezer.  My wife just made me cut back my long beard :()

Also, SIAG Office seems pretty light-weight:
USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
me   10380  0.3  0.3  8396 3860 pts/1    S    13:54   0:00 pw
me   10381  0.0  0.3  8396 3860 pts/1    S    13:54   0:00 pw
me   10382  0.0  0.3  8396 3860 pts/1    S    13:54   0:00 pw

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