Re: why ABIWORD?

On 30 Jun 2012, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 > Francesco Pietra wrote: > > > Hello: > > With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) > > not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found > > abiword in great troubles with tables made b

Re: why ABIWORD?

I use both, for different reasons and don't intermix them. For print off office literature, Abiword is great and LibreOffice has its strengths. Then again, for other things, LyX is good. All good things come in time. Regards, Weaver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: why ABIWORD?

On 06/30/2012 05:58 AM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 Francesco Pietra wrote: /snip/ If someone demands a Word document, I would normally send an RTF file, which is somewhat more predictable and will open in any Word, and even then I'd use quite large margins. I do actually h

Re: why ABIWORD?

On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hello: > With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) > not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found > abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. > Suddendly, abiword w

Re: why ABIWORD?

On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) > not launching. When that happens, run it from command line ("oowriter") and watch for the output. > I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found abiword

why ABIWORD?

Hello: With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. Suddendly, abiword was able to destroy nearly completely the content of the big table. Sho