Re: [orca-list] Alternatives for Open Office

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Luciano de Souza <luchyanus gmail com> wrote:
 
> Since Open Office is not reliable, I decide to search for other
> alternatives. StarOffice, KOffice, GOffice, AbiWord, GWriter,
> XEmacs, IBM Lotus Symphony could be tested, regarding the target of
> these applications are similar to Open Ofice.
>
> Which of then were you tested? Can I use one of then in place of the
> whole Open Office or simply in place of Writer or Calc?

For writing documents I use LaTeX under Emacs. You can also prepare slide
presentations with LaTeX. LaTeX is better than a word processor and always
will be.

Org-mode in Emacs is also very good. It can handle tables and apparently has
spreadsheet-like capabilities that I haven't yet needed to try. It's ideal for
note taking; documents can be exported to XHTML, LaTeX and Docbook.

If you are in a career that requires you to edit documents in an office
format, you really do need Openoffice.org or LibreOffice, so I would encourage
you to report all of the accessibility-related issues in those projects that
you discover.