ponto -- first public release

[Dr. Ludger Humbert]

ponto is a small piece of software to enable *informatics education* by
building object oriented documents and using OpenOffice.org.
ponto is released under GPL.
At the moment two languages namely german and english are supported.
ponto will start OpenOffice.org (writer) and communicates via pyuno-bridge.

example use (with OpenOffice.org bundled python)

[Linux]
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/python

[Mac OS X]
/Applications/OpenOffice1.1.2/program/python

from ponto import Document
birthdayInvitation=Document()
opening=birthdayInvitation.createParagraph("Hi friend,")
mainText=birthdayInvitation.createParagraph("as you know, ...")
...

more information (incl. source-code) at

http://www.ham.nw.schule.de/pub/bscw.cgi/0/73468

http://ddi.cs.uni-dortmund.de/projekte/ponto


     Ludger Humbert