*haha* i agree with you on this one. i'm a writer & a good word processor is pretty
important to me. so far this has been my only disappointment with the world of Linux.
i also agree with your assesments below. you & i are probably the only 2 people here
who don't have a shrine in the honor of StarOffice. (that's a joke, for those of you
who need to be told so) i mean SO is ok, considering it's free. but is that really
saying much? granted, Linux is "free" and it rocks, but just because it's free
doesn't make it good, any more than paying money for it makes it good.
i have just recently tried out ApplixOffice and posted a brief review and some screen
shots on my web site. Applix claims (i can't really say for sure it is or isn't) a
Linux native program, not something ported. i found it mostly useable... a few odd
things & notes for the wish list, but so far it is the best of what i have seen. the
review is at:
http://ontheflyphotography.1stcyberhost.com/linux04.htm
later dayz......
Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
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>>> "pablito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1:17:52 PM 11/23/00 >>>
Of course I meant REAL word processors and the LINUX crowd, not these
commercial enterprises trying to hurriedly port their wares to Linux.
Kword would qualify as a Real word processor from the Linux crowd if it
would save in some of the normal wp formats and if a few bugs were
straightened out. I really like Kword. But that's kind of new, isn't it?
oh well, maybe in a few more months.
WP8 was a semi-commercial program and absolutely stinkingly pukingly awful,
still using the ancient PTR files from WP5.1 days with those hard-coded font
selections. I remember hand-editing those in Dos to try to get WP5.1 to use
downloadable fonts. think it was just a quick and dirty thing Corel put
out. I guess that's why they switched their stategy to Wine.
Star Office is a big disappointment and is not the Linux crowd, as far as
I'm concerned. Again, it's the hard coded font selections, unless there is
some way to install more fonts. That kind of spoils a wp for me, since I
think times is too narrow and hard to read.
AbiWord: Not as nice as Kword and still those hard coded fonts. Most of
the Linux text editors aren't particular about fonts. What libraries are
these guys using?
Klyx: I haven't tried that. That's the graphical front end to tetex,
right? Okay I'll take a look at that, but tetex sounded like a real ancient
thing from pre-X days.
Applixware: I heard of that, not Maxwell.
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From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie]winblows interface
: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, pablito wrote:
:
: >Still using windows unfortunately. need to figure out how to configure
Wine,
: >and spend some money on hard disks and more software. Why is it that the
: >linux crowd loves to program all kinds of graphics stuff but gets bored
with
: >creating something basic like a word processor?
:
: Like Wordperfect 8 for linux, indeed.
Or abiword for linux. Or Kword for
: Linux. Or Klyx. Or Maxwell. Or StarOffice. Or Applixware I agree... not
: really...
:
: Paul
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