> 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 ... ;)
As you say, it has serious limitations. Whether it's of use obviously depends on what you're doing, but part of the issue is not to invest in software which create file formats which can no longer be processed later. I don't think the interoperability of file formats between OSS word processors is that hot. Forget about xml - unless you plan to write your own format converter in the future, it might as well be xyz28. I have a number of spread sheets and started using kspread 4 or 5 years back. There was no OO, and SO was unusably slow on my hardware. Gnome office was non-existant, koffice was further. To make it short, and to be very polite, kspread is lacking in usability. Although gnumeric may have fewer bugs, I doubt it really fares that much better. These days, OO 1.1 is much faster than kspread and runs acceptably fast on my box. It's also producing widely used file formats, so I'm not likely going to get stuck in the future, and I can exchange documents with Microsofties (who can be told to install OO, but gnomewhat? abiwhat??). Perhaps the situation is a little different with word processors, but OO has the same advantages there. Now if it had fractionally more of a KDE user interface... Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
