Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:44:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: Todd Meister <todd@lmi.net> Cc: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ok, let's get things interesting here... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910280635580.14260-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991027111852.todd@lmi.net>
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Todd Meister wrote:
> On 27-Oct-99 J McKitrick wrote:
> > Well, has it been stable for you? I can't afford to lose any important
> > data. Also, is it missing any really important features?
>
> I haven't used it much, honestly, and I really only installed it to view other
> people's documents. I'm so used to creating all documents as plain text in vi
> that I'm not even sure what features are important.
>
AbiWord? Nearly all features are in the pull down menus, but ... when
you exercize your mouse on them you are invited to implement them
yourself ... :-) Only very basic features are there at the moment. It
does not seem to be an alternative for Word. AFAIK it can not export
to .doc format. That's what I need, as I partly make a living by
writing for a magazine that only accepts articles in .doc. (They let
me do one on FreeBSD though recently).
But why not *try* AbiWord? It is only a few MB's and easy to install.
No libs etc. And it looks like Word. You can find out if it is for
you in an hour.
Marc
Marc Schneiders || In re tam justa
|| nulla est deliberatio!
marc@venster.nl ||
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