Steven:
I see that you are leaning toward Abiword for wordprocessing under BL2. I think I
would favor Lyx over Abiword, as I believe I've mentioned previously. This is mainly
because my benchmark for useful wordprocessing is auto-footnoting (I do academic
writing and need to use footnotes), and Abiword does not do auto-footnoting (version
1.02, which is installed on one of my machines doesn't, anyway). Personally, I would
much prefer something like Lyx, which does do autofootnoting, as well as conversion to
pdf and alot of other advanced wordproceesing stuff. In case you're still open on the
wordprocessing issue, I'll append here the output of an LDD I ran on the Lyx binary on
this system:
ldd /usr/bin/lyx
libforms.so.0.89 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.0.89 (0x40023000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40107000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40115000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4011d000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40133000)
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (0x401ed000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40236000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40258000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40373000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
The binary is 2.7MB, btw.
Of course it requires that Tex/Latex be installed, since Lyx really provides a
graphical frontend for Tex/Latex. I believe you asked me earlier if Lyx is a WYSIWYG
wordprocessor. Well, sort of. Here's what they say about it on their website: "LyX
presents the user with the familiar face of a WYSIWYG word processor. However, users
familiar with Microsoft Word or WordPerfect may be perplexed by certain basic LyX
behavior. For example, repeatedly hitting the space bar has no effect! This is by
design: LyX puts in the proper spacing for you, intelligently. Welcome to the LyX
paradigm!" and . . . "Think of LyX as the first WYSIWYM word processor: What You See
Is What You Mean." etc. I guess the deciding factor may be its installed size as
compared to Abiword.
Anyway, just a further word on wordprocessing. I may investigate the much lighter
"Ted" wordprocessor further, which seems to have alot of features and claims to do
auto-footnoting too. Haven't been able to get it to perform as advertised yet, though.
Thanks, James
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