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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA When Swedes start committing terrorism, I'll become suspicious of Scandanavians.
