Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:18:41 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > Polytropon skrev 2012-11-15 10:12: >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:06:56 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. >>> >>> My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little >>

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:47:04 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe because 20+ years ago I learnt wordstar, so if > you grew up on pointin' & clickin' you'll be sorely dis- > appointed, but I enjoy the jstar mode of editors/joe > (or actually editors/jupp, some dif'rence, mostly). Fully agree for

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-16 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 15 November 2012 04:06, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > Hello > > I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. > > My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older > hardware is very long. > > Is there an alternative to writer that does not take that long to build? > > If I can

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-15 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:06:56AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > Is there an alternative to writer that does not take that long to build? Maybe wordgrinder? http://wordgrinder.sourceforge.net/ Never tried it on FreeBSD (mostly because I refuse to install Lua) but it never takes long to build if i

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-15 Thread Leslie Jensen
Polytropon skrev 2012-11-15 10:12: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:06:56 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: Hello I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older hardware is very long. Why not use the binary install method (pkg_add -r)

Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:06:56 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > Hello > > I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. > > My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older > hardware is very long. Why not use the binary install method (pkg_add -r)? The default options shou

"Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-15 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hello I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older hardware is very long. Is there an alternative to writer that does not take that long to build? If I can get an alternative to Calc also it's a plus but not a big prob