Dyne:bolic includes software to let you easily write and compose any kind of text document: hyper-texts that can be published on the internet (HTML), formatted texts that can be printed (RTF, PDF, Postscript and even the deprecated DOC [1] format).
AbiWord and Ted are word processors, with them you can write and edit documents and articles mostly made of text, formatting things like the font properties, alignement and so on, saving them in Rich Text Format and other similar formats. While AbiWord is a full fledged word processor, Ted should be choosen for its simplicity and lightweight, being able to run on slower computers.
Scribus is a desktop publishing program to compose vectorial formats like PDF and Postscript, it is useful to paginate text in a professional printable form to produce magazines, flyers and most publications that need to mix text and images in pages following customizable schemes.
In order to edit webpages, Bluefish is provided for web designers to edit plain HTML scripts, aided by a series of toolbars which provide element templates for links, images, tables etc. giving you a useful highlight for the tags.
Nedit is a plain text editor providing syntax highlight for a couple of sourcecode languages, it is intuitive and easy to use for the newbies, but at the same can offer a powerful environment for programmers.
At last, Antiword is a very handy commandline application to convert with a simple command any .doc file into a plain text file, keeping the alignement of the lines intact. For a quick start try it out:
[d:b] ~ #antiword evil.doc > good.txt [Enter]as usual there are manual pages providing more informations on its usage, just type man antiword into a terminal.
| [1] | You shouldn't use the .DOC format for many reasons: it exposes all your previous changes in your documents which can often lead to a privacy problem, it can vehicle dangerous viruses that affect other proprietary systems and it stores your text in a non-readable way which ties you up to the availability of proprietary software. See the extensive document http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html on the topic. However, dyne:bolic is able to read and write all .DOC files. |