From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 8 16:13:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA13338 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:13:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA13330 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA03690; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:12:23 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id IAA15321; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:42:20 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970909084220.38015@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:42:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Larry S. Marso" Cc: Natasha Hendrick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Word processors under FreeBSD References: <19970908130810.23848@lemis.com> <19970908093716.18380@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19970908093716.18380@panix.com>; from Larry S. Marso on Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 09:37:16AM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 09:37:16AM -0400, Larry S. Marso wrote: > In addition to StarOffice and Applix, which I'd categorize as poor "Word > clones", I just received the September issue of the German magazine c't, which includes a test of several word processors, including StarOffice and Microsoft Word. StarOffice gets quite good marks, not as good as Frame (the winner). Word is disqualified for bugs, but even without them, doesn't get as good marks as StarOffice. IMO, c't is one of the best computer magazines in the world. Their criticism is always well founded. In this case, they showed Word underlining at an angle, and entering page number 9 for all index entries. They also showed cases where a saved document looked different after re-opeining, and reliable ways to crash Word while trying to do something valid. Greg