On 6 March 2011 17:44, Ryan McCoskrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:50:14 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On 6 March 2011 16:23, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 16:19 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > Libreoffice is in Debian sid (as is OOo), but not testing (yet). > > > > > > > > Phil. > > > > > > ... and also the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 > > > > If you do not need compatibility with the word processer offered by the > > other big o/s, might I suggest > > kword<http://www.kde.org/applications/office/kword/>which is a neat > > little package. It just does the job simply and easily. > > I'd have to put a warning on that one. KWord 1 is a nice little thing built > for KDE 3.5 but for the moment KWord 2 (for 4.x) can do some sevrely > brain damaged formatting, one letter per page sort of brain damage. > Which version does that? Kword-2.3.3 works ok for me. ( but I havn't asked it to to more than set simple and straightforward texts such as personal letters etc. ) Scribus <http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus> is another very nice DTP program with which you can put formatted words and images on paper. -- Sincerely, Christopher Sawtell
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