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Re: Tech Writing Curriculum

Subject: Re: Tech Writing Curriculum
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:09:56 -0800

Marie C. Paretti wrote:

If you (any of you, actually) have any other particular open-source, freeware, or shareware alternatives we could use to give students core skills, I'd love to hear about them.

Off the top of my head:

- OpenOffice (the free version of StarOffice)
- The GIMP (Graphics)
- Amaya (HTML)
- LaTeX
- DocBook and related technologies, such as jade

All these should be cross-platform. Some free java tools would also be a good idea, although no concrete suggestions immediately come to mind.
It would also be a good idea to encourage students to write to the maintainers of the projects with suggestions about how to improve them.

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