openOffice

[Albertito]

hello,

2006/7/11, email.listen at googlemail.com <email.listen at googlemail.com>:
>
> Am Tue, 11. July 2006 11:14 schrieb Albertito:
> > 2006/7/11, Luzi Thöny <lucius.antonius at gmail.com>:
> > > On 7/11/06, Albertito <atetinho at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > hello,
> > > >
> > > >  why doesn´t OpenOffice appear as installed in XUbuntu? Sorry by the
> > > > question but I come from Ubuntu.
> > > >
> > > > thanks!
> > >
> > > OpenOffice is too big and too resource-hungry for Xubuntu. Xubuntu
> > > prefers smaller, faster applications like AbiWord for Wordprocessing
> and
> > > Gnumeric for Spreasheets.
> > >
> > > Installing OpenOffice is very easy with Synaptic, though, should you
> need
> > > it.
> >
> > ok. and, an equivalent product to make presentations?
> May be you should have a closer look on LyX.
>
> LyX is a LateX based documentation tool. It offers an easy gui-based
> interface
> as you know it from common word processors as Abiword or OpenOffice.org.
> The type of a new document is defined by so called document classes, as it
> is
> done in LaTeX.
>
> So for a letter you would use the letter or koma-letter class, for a
> documentation as a thesis or a book or koma-book class and for a
> presentation
> you may use prosper or beamer class. For (complex) spreadsheats you can
> use
> gnumeric and export it to LaTeX. This can be imported to LyX afterwards
> but
> it needs some LaTeX fizzeling, at least on the first time.
>
> The workflow is diferent than those you may be familiar with in a
> wordprocessor, a presentation applicaton or a spreadsheet application.
>
> What is a strong argument pro LyX is its tremendous layout, very
> professional,
> as you know it from LaTeX based publications from O'Reilly or Prentice
> Hall.
> And due to the fact that it is LaTeX based it don't change its document
> format
> every qouple of month.
>
> I'm using LyX for my Linux and Unix course material and I'm using it since
> years. Unlike others I hadn't to convert my documents to new file formats.
> So
> I would judge LyX as a very sustainable and long lasting tool(set).
> But it needs some (sometimes more) LaTeX knowledge if you want to do
> really
> nifty things. But there is a very friendly LyX users list and a extensive
> LyX-wiki where you will find a lot of support and help, exspecially for
> beginers.
>
>
>
> Another presentation tool is magicpoint
> (the deb is named mgp, you will find it in synaptic)
>
> mgp needs very few reccources and is damned fast even on very old
> hardware,
> e.g. a P-III 300. A presentation is defined by a text file which has
> the 'commands' for the mgp engine. It looks a bit like a shell script, but
> it's easy to understand and to learn.
>
> At http://www.freeos.com/articles/3648/ there is a small article /
> tutorial 'From Power (point) to Magic(point) - Presentations using your
> Linux
> box' which shows a mgp file.
>
> regards,
> thomas
>
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but, can we use Inkscape too, can´t?

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Albertito
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