I prefer AbiWord because it seems to accept other format documents with the fewest errors. Not perfectly, but very often acceptable. I haven't had good luck with KWord or other provided WP programs.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:05 am, Randy Kramer wrote: > shane wrote: > > On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodr�guez opened a hailing > > > > frequency and transmitted: > > > Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? > > > > if i remember correctly this was asked, and the general feel seemed to be > > "cause they haven't changed the package in so long it is damn near > > useless now" > > It's too bad people perceive it that way. AbiWord seems to be a fairly > active development project especially considering the small number of > developers and time available for each. They are currently > concentrating on several "bugfix" releases prior to releasing 1.0, which > will *not* have tables and some other features people desire. > > After releasing 1.0 they intend to embark on some extensive changes > which may mean that post 1.0 releases are in a state of disarray for > some time. > > However, I think the changes will be worth it -- they include tables, > (IIUC) replacing the "rendering engine", and incorporating something > like Pango to better support things like Unicode and > internationalization. > > Some of the fairly recent changes which are in AbiWord now include > styles (and templates) including a wide selection of bulleted and > numbered list styles. Also, as you may know, AbiWord is crossplatform, > working on Linux and Windows (and other systems), and using the same > file format on each platform (XML). Also, it is "international" > available in and handling many other languages and things like > bidirectional text. > > Randy Kramer -- Registered Linux abuser #223705 Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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