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On Friday 28 June 2002 2:13 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:

> Depending on your needs, don't overlook AbiWord.  I expect it to be
> the best Linux word processor within a few years, with almost all the
> features of Word, and many similarities in the menus and so forth.
>
> AbiWord 1.0 has been released, and good progress is being made on
> incorporating tables for the next major release (tentatively 1.2)
> which I'd guess could be released before the end of the year.  (That
> is strictly a guess, it could be earlier, it could be later.)

I have to say that not supporting tables is a pretty spectacular 
omission for version "1.0" of a word processor! For that reason AbiWord 
is no use to me at the moment; every document I work with has multiple 
tables and some of those complex (cells spanning columns and other 
tricks). I'd say any technical document is almost bound to contain 
tables of one sort or another ...

That said, if it wasn't for that mistaken (IMO) omission AbiWord is a 
very impressive package and, if there's beta testing, I shall set my 
documents on it (if its table support can cope with them it can cope 
with anything ...).

Alastair
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Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)
http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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