On Wednesday 09 Mar 2005 19:05, Ian Lynch wrote: > Abiword has some advantages in being separable from the other apps and > presumably its smaller and will run on lower spec machines. Bu t do keep > in mind that in terms of file format OASIS is the most likely common > denominator with a chance of getting mass take up to displace .doc.
I have removed it from my machine, I only occasionally need 'written' letters, the that one has to pay 29p for a stamp + the paper + the envelope, over six shillings in what I grew up with. I'll just use plain text via a text editor, desite having been a compositor/graphic designer in the days when we still set type by hand, ( I must find a museum that wants my tools). I did take, as can be seen, exception to people telling me not to use a tool that didn't do X, Y and Z when in fact it did all the things that they were insisting that it should as a minimum do. I am still of the opinion that Government departments need informing, particularly as it is part of Gnome, at least it was in Slackware 10.1 but I only used AbiWord and KDE + KOffice -- John Seago GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
