From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 8:59:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD7214E23 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:58:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11g8zR-000L3f-00; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:58:25 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA81683; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:58:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:58:24 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WYSIWYG word processor needed In-Reply-To: <19991026111315.30516@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just feel that word processing is not my forte, so to be user-friendly, a wp should make it as easy as possible for me to concentrate on writing and the end result, not worrying about how to process a document with complex commands and codes. Besides, i like my cut and paste, italics, bold, etc, as well as auto spell check and convenient page layout. Now, i'm not saying i want bloatware. Frankly, if abiword were reasonably bug free, i would be a happy camper: 3 megs, and does all the basics. But i don't trust it right now, and it is still missing some major features. WordPerfect and StarOffice are huge, and Applix costs more that i have (unless they offer student discount!). -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message