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