Debian Junior writing packages

AbiWord is een complete, efficiënte tekstverwerker. Het is geschikt voor een grote verscheidenheid aan tekstverwerkingstaken en is uitbreidbaar door middel van meerdere plug-ins.

Dit pakket bevat een groot deel van de import/export plug-ins waarmee AbiWord ondersteuning biedt voor ODT, WordPerfect en andere formaten. Het bevat ook andere hulpmiddelen, zoals samenwerken met AbiWordgebruikers op Linux en Windows (met TCP of Jabber/XMPP), vertaling via het internet, woordenboeken en meer.

GNU Aspell is een spellingscontroleprogramma dat gebruikt kan worden als los programma of uitbreiding voor andere programma's. Het belangrijkste voordeel van dit programma is dat het veel beter is in het voorstellen van andere spellingen dan andere programma's, zoals Microsoft Office Word en Ispell. Het heeft ook nog vele andere nuttige pluspunten ten opzichte van Ispell, zoals het gebruik van gedeeld geheugen voor woordenlijsten/-boeken en het op slimme wijze beheren van eigen woordenlijsten/-boeken wanneer er meer dan één Aspellproces tegelijkertijd draait.

Aspell is gemaakt om een drop-invervanger te zijn voor Ispell.

Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used - for example,

• on a palmtop computer
• on a wearable computer
• when operating a computer one-handed, by joystick, touchscreen, trackball, or mouse
• when operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by eyetracker).

The eyetracking version of Dasher allows an experienced user to write text as fast as normal handwriting - 25 words per minute; using a mouse, experienced users can write at 39 words per minute.

Dasher uses a more advanced prediction algorithm than the T9(tm) system often used in mobile phones, making it sensitive to surrounding context.

This package provides a client application to query a dictd server. The client-server protocol is TCP-based; the server may then be local or accessed through the network.

The DICT Development Group maintains several public servers which can be accessed from any machine connected to the Internet. The default configuration is to query one of these servers first. This may be changed in the configuration file /etc/dictd/dict.conf.

Queries may be customized by numerous command line options, including specifying the database(s) to be queried and the search strategy to be used.

This package also provides dictl, which allows using UTF-8 encoded dictionaries with terminals that do not support UTF-8.

GCompris is a high quality educational software suite, including a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

GNU nano is an easy-to-use text editor originally designed as a replacement for Pico, the ncurses-based editor from the non-free mailer package Pine (itself now available under the Apache License as Alpine).

However, GNU nano also implements many features missing in Pico, including:

• undo/redo
• line numbering
• syntax coloring
• soft-wrapping of overlong lines
• selecting text by holding Shift
• interactive search and replace (with regular expression support)
• a go-to line (and column) command
• support for multiple file buffers
• auto-indentation
• tab completion of filenames and search terms
• toggling features while running
• and full internationalization support

pySioGame is a set of educational activities and games for children aged between 3 and 10. The activities are grid based and can be played all in a single window. pySioGame includes maths, reading, writing, painting, and memory activities.

WriteType is a simple word processor designed to help young students write more easily and accurately. It offers spelling suggestions as students type, making the process easier and less frustrating. It also provides the ability to read back text through either an eSpeak or a Festival backend. In addition, there are special tools for teachers, and the entire application is easily translatable.