For what it's worth, I've just finished my second draft of my first draft of a novella I've been writing. I decided to put my money where my mouth is re: Free/Libre Open Source Software, and downloaded AbiWord http://www.abisource.com/ to try it out.
I can report that AbiWord is a reasonable small Wordprocessor. It does have a few minor issues, but it works satisfactorily. It doesn't like big files - I downloaded a 1.56 MB RTF document I had stored on a web-site of mine, and it took too long to load. It loads smaller files quite quickly, and is the fastest of all the wordprocessors I have tried, for small files. Just thought some of you out there might be interested in knowing this. Anyone who needs a small, fast multi-platform wordprocessor without all the bells and whistles ... ;) Wesley Parish "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
