
OFFICE + WORDPROCESSING

    The probably most wanted feature of a computer is the abbility to write,
    process or design your documents, papers and publications. For this
    purpose you have a lot of tools and software avaiable. Here are some of
    them.

    ed			- an historical editor not ment for real usage
			  we provide it just to be downwards compatible ;)
    joe			- Joe's Own Editor, a console editor with 
			  WordStar(tm)-like handling in its default 
			  configuration. It also provides other emulations
    vim			- VI Improved, a very mighty VI clone with features 
			  like syntax-highlighting, command and edit modes
    emacs		- GNU Emacs, the editor of choice on *nix Systems
			  It's the extensible, customizable, self-documenting,
			  real-time display editor. It can lisp-code, is the
			  programmer's choice and cooks coffee for you.
    xemacs		- XEmacs is based on Emacs
    aspell		- an open source spell checker
    gaspell		- Gnome frontend for aspell
    koffice		- a full functionally office package with KWord,
			  KSpread, KPresenter, KChart, KIllustrator,
			  Krayon, Kugar, Kivio, and all-in-one combined with
			  the KOffice Workspace
    tetex		- the teTeX distribution of LaTeX.
			  LaTeX is a macro package for the very mighty and
			  powerfull typesetting program TeX. You want to use
			  it - especially for your scientific publications.
    gnuplot		- this is a command-driven function plotting program
    ggv/gv/kghostview	- ghostview is a ghostscript frontend, needed for
			  postscript processing and printing

ALTERNATIVES
    abiword	(URL)
    StarOffice	(URL)
    LyX / KLyX	(URL)

