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For my own use,I'm assembling a list of useful free software/open source
writing tools for Linux. I was well-aware of standard tools such as
OpenOffice, Abiword, and dia, but here's some lesser-known ones that may
be useful to people other than me:
- quanta: a GUI editor for developing on-line help for the KDE desktop.
- manedit: a GUI editor for writing man pages. It enforces the
conventional struture.
-ktexmaker2: a GUI for latex.It takes most of the pain out of
latex.Requires the KDE desktop installed (unsurprisingly)
- screem: described as a "site creator," screem is a multi-purpose
editor for web sites. It contains quite an impressive collection of
tools, including ones for writing scripts of various sorts, as well as
HTML and XHTML and a menu for CVS version control. What might make it
especially interesting for me is that it has a wizard for writing css
style sheets.Requires the GNOME desktop installed.
Some of these tools are probably not new, but I can only plead too many
packages and too little time for not discovering them before. I'm using
Debian these days, and I heard last week that Debian unstable (aka
"sid") currently has over ten thousand packages.I've got about 800 on my
computer, and I haven't even had time to sort through all of those.
If anybody has any other discoveries, please feel free to add to the list.
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