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From: Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia <ishpeck@ishpeck.net>
To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
Subject: Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet
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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 it does work. :P