OT: best FOSS wiki for this classroom scenario?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 22:30, H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote:

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> I have been looking for an outlier as well for quite some time for exactly the same reasons as you. Further, I would want it to be keyboard-driven rather than relying on a mouse which is way too slow and cumbersome. I do remember PC Outline with much fondness...
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> I would also like it to be able to read/write in markdown format, perhaps using that as its native format. In addition, it should read/write files in OO format as well as in HTML.
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> I have been resorting to using Impress as an outlier but it is a very poor substitute...

:-) I feel your pain!

PC-Outline is still around on the abandonware sites, and works under
DOSemu. It's very clunky today, though.

The Folding Text add-on for Atom is pretty good.

I run MS Word 97 under WINE on Ubuntu. It works flawlessly, it writes
files that LibreOffice opens directly, and it can access the Linux
filesystem easily. Cut-and-paste works. You can install it alone from
MS Office 97, although I also have a standalone copy of just Word. You
can also install all the MS Service Releases to bring it to as
up-to-date as a 23-year-old piece of software can be.

The only things it _can't_ do are:
• it doesn't work with Linux compose keys, such as compose-full
stop-equals which I just used for the bullet point at the start of
this line
• I found it didn't work with an external Displayport portrait
monitor; it could only be resized to VGA/SVGA resolutions, not
something like 1080×2560. I am not sure if it was the resolution or
the portrait orientation.

I have also tried some earlier & later versions of Word.
• Word 95 works but has a different file format, less well-understood now
• Word 6 for NT (the 32-bit version) would not install properly
• Word 2000 installs and runs but can't be updated
• I don't have Office XP so didn't try that
• Word 2003 can't install under ordinary free WINE but works perfectly
with CrossOver Office.
I have not tried later versions, as I hate the Ribbon interface.


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