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Adding to Bruce's list, I would add KWord, part of the KOffice suite for KDE. It has the distinct advantage over OpenOffice/StarWriter of being a frame-based word processor. Students would then get a start on handling that "other" Frame-based tool that gets used a lot in the real world.
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From: Bruce Byfield [mailto:bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:10 PM
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Subject: Re: Tech Writing Curriculum
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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