Subject: Re: New french user, page setup, table
From: Alan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 09:13:15 CDT
> Stéphane Letourneur wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I've just found this open source free word processing. I'm happy to
> use a non-microsoft software, and appreciate its ease of use. I work
> in a french college (children from 11 to 15), and I don't agree the
> National public Education spends a lot or money in Microsoft software.
> So I'll try to use it with the pupills. At home I have the 0.7.14
> AbiWord on a PC 32 bits files system with Windows ME. I'm not yet
> enough experienced to dare to install Linux on my computer, but I'll
> do it one day. Open source is nearer of my philosophy of computing.
> After to say hello, I wanted to ask some questions.
> - Is there some french speaking persons on this mailing list ?
> - I can't make table with AbiWord. Is it planed for next version ? Is
> there another easy way to make table (without MS Word !) ?
> - The fonction File / Page setup doesn't work. The dialog box open
> normaly, but after it stop AbiWord. I can only do CTRL+ALT+SUPPR. Is
> somebody have yet met this problem ? Is somebody have a solution ?
Malheureusement mon francais n'est pas bien, mais la traduction de
babelfish est trés utile. http://babelfish.altavista.com
Je pense qu'il y a quelqe francophone sur cette liste, je sais quelq'un
des develepers est francais.
Il n'ya pas des tables. No tables yet, but yes tables are planned.
StarOffice/OpenOffice is also very good for word processing but more
complicated to use.
If you dont have a printer it will cause problems with "page setup".
You might have a different problem, i dont know.
Sincerely
Alan
P.S. If you like open source and gnu free software but still want to use
windows, there are lots more open source programs for windows, but
these are just some of the one i use most often.
for Graphics: The Gimp, http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32
for Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Mathematics, Vector
Drawing (everything MS Office can do and more):
StarOffice/OpenOffice, http://www.sun.com/staroffice
for editing AVI video, http://www.virtualdub.org
If you want to teach your students a few basic things about the command
line, you can get Cygwin, http://www.
which gives you a powerful unix like command line for windows, it is a
good way to get used to Linux.
im sure others on this list will be able to suggest some other
opensource programs for windows.
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