Ok people. The UK gov seems to take us (other too, we're that previledged unfourtunately) quite fondly:
* Abiword is fast, clean and stable. It has a limited set of features; minimalist tables and no embedded objects. It can interoperate with Word by using rtf files and has a capable Word doc file importer, which can even handle fast saved documents. Word documents that use unimplemented features like tables have their formatting corrupted on import. The Word doc exporter is very limited, and not installed by default. Parts of this document have been written with Abiword. It is slightly unusual in that it is a cross-platform project, and works on Windows, Linux and other Unix flavours, Macintosh (alpha) and several more exotic platforms (QNX, Beos). Abiword works very nicely, the behaviour is intuitive and in some respects it is easier to understand than Word. It interoperates within its limited set of features; the main missing features (full table implementation, embedded objects) seem unlikely to be complete within at least six months. Until these features are complete, we could not define it as viable. * Kword is much more fully featured than Abiword. It has embedded objects, tables, footnotes, automated table of contents and an equation editor. The version tested was 0.8, part of the KDE 2.0.1 release and suffered some stability problems; the Word document importer froze on documents that Abiword handled perfectly. Stability is much improved on earlier versions. Kword is viable, but until the importer is stable it is not usefully interoperable. What this seems to show is what the 2 main goals for 1.2 should be (if I had to name them): full table implementation and embedded objects. It's also very nice to see how we have been appreciated around early October. I'm sure they would praise us even more right now. Congratulations are in order to all, and I hope everyone agrees that we have to focus on those two features. Notice how well they studied AbiWord: "It has a limited set of features; minimalist tables (...)" Hugs, rms -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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