From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 21:23:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75FDD37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:23:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 53345 invoked by uid 100); 16 Jan 2001 05:23:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14947.56023.36630.265919@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:23:35 -0600 (CST) To: mike.jeays@statcan.ca Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: good text based word processor, database question, and fr eebsd-uk In-Reply-To: <11062355@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mike.jeays@statcan.ca types: > I downloaded AbiWord (from www.abisource.com) two nights ago, and > it installed on a FreebSD 4.1 system with absolutely no problems. > > It is licensed under the GPL. > > It looks like a stripped-down version of Microsoft Word, with the > added benefit that its files are in XML. It can produce RTF output, > and sends PostScript either directly to the printer, or to a file. I > was able to produce good-quality personal and business letters with > no need to look at a manual, and this would be true for anyone who > had used Word. I took the "text based word processor" to mean they wanted something that edited text, but with WP features (ala the early DOS based WP programs), so didn't respond. I wrote a brief review of all the FreeBSD WPs I could find last year. You can read the current version at . AbiWord is included. Lyx, SIAG and koffice aren't. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message