Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:47:04 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Light" word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet Message-ID: <CAHHBGkqdFh5QmfY1MYJ5gg9PgbJ%2BuL-hqbjv3qs7i1Uj5=yJnA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50A4B0B0.2020009@eskk.nu> References: <50A4B0B0.2020009@eskk.nu>
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On 15 November 2012 04:06, Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> 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 get an alternative to Calc also it's a plus but not a big problem. > > The main work I do will still be done on machines that can build > LibreOffice. Now and then I need to open an attached file, maybe edit it and > send it back. It's for that purpose I need the light version. > 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). Pathetic writer, from siag isn't half bad, but you'll have to build from sources all by your lonesome, & it ain't gonna work at first. The downside is the general inability to simply open /certain proprietary formats/ which libre- & open-office have. But then I'm a fan of editing & writing with a simple editing & writing program & saving all the font & other extraneous formatting nonsense to a proper layout program (the old Aldus PageMaker was nice back in the 1990s, haha): print/scribus might be an option, except that it pulls in every accursed KDE/qt4 thing on Earth. -- --
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