From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 27 21:44:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C1714C8F for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:44:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=propro) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11ghQL-0004ZG-00; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 04:44:29 +0000 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:44:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: Todd Meister Cc: J McKitrick , freebsd-chat Subject: RE: ok, let's get things interesting here... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 || marc@oldserver.demon.nl || Acta SS. MM. Scillitanorum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message