On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:49, Andrew Errington wrote: > > I can report that AbiWord is a reasonable small Wordprocessor. It does > > have a few minor issues, but it works satisfactorily. I tried it out quite a while ago and it installed a whole load of very unsatisfactory fonts, totally stuffing up virtually every kde application. I thought 'never again'. I hope it has stopped doing that particular misdemeanor.
> > 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 ... ;) > > AbiWord v1.0.2 comes with Debian Stable (woody). I used it a couple of > times, and quite liked it. To be honest, I haven't really fixed on a > favourite wordprocessor with Linux. I like KWord, Yes, so do I. For that quick page or three it's not far off perfect imho. I like the frames paradigm. > I find Open Office takes > too long to load, and AbiWord was nice. I reckon if I loaded up a later > distro I'd get better apps but for now I don't much care. At least I > *have* a choice. > > Good luck with the writing. Follow your muse! Are we allowed to see the pre-production efforts? For writing books there is not much to go past (La)TeX. The LyX front end makes it more or less usable by anybody. ( Actually a great deal more than less ) LyX is a _lot_ faster to set up than trying to coax the pure WYSIWYG offerings to produce what you want. http://www.tug.org/ http://www.lyx.org/ For more DTP type of things I have also found Scribus to be very usable. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
