Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 08:51:22PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. -- Ed C. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null KOffice is shaping up, from the look of the screenshots at http://koffice.kde.org. Personally, I recently purchased a copy of Wordperfect 8. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
Stephen Pitts wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 08:51:22PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. -- Ed C. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null KOffice is shaping up, from the look of the screenshots at http://koffice.kde.org. Personally, I recently purchased a copy of Wordperfect 8. I was considering buying WP8 too. Its very impressive, at least to me. However, I asked Corel if they would be updating it to libc6, and they said they have no plans to do so. I may be over-reacting, but this lead me to wonder how committed they really are to the Linux community. Netscape chose to do so, although their libc6 version is 'unsupported'. This issue may depend on how many distros are still based on libc5, I don't know. -- Ed C.
[OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. -- Ed C.
Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. AbiWord has that goal and is likely to achieve it in a relatively short timeframe, I'm sure the others have it too but the authors probably don't ahve the time/expertise to implement it. (Though, since AbiWord is GPL, if it manages it the others may follow in short order by borrowing the code.) Other projects include: gwp (Gnome Word Processor) go (Another Gnome Word Processor) Maxwell (was a commercial product, now GPL) KWord (KDE word processor) In the meantime you can sort of read word files with the 'catdoc' program which is in Debian... Havoc
Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. StarOffice is the closest you will get to MS look and feel. And then there is another editir that can read MS RTF format perfectly, I forgot its name now. You could also get the free WordPerfect and see if it can translate for you, there is also some Word to * translators. /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /--/
Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
Daniel Mashao hat gesagt: // Daniel Mashao wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. StarOffice is the closest you will get to MS look and feel. And then there is another editir that can read MS RTF format perfectly, I forgot its name now. This might be ted, that wants to be a kind of Wordpad/Write for XWin. Debian package is in potato. I tried it but I hated it and I deinstalled it. It reads RTF really good, though, but I did not found an Undo function. Maybe its hidden somewhere, I didn't search for long. An editor without Undo is rubbish. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
Daniel Mashao wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. StarOffice is the closest you will get to MS look and feel. And then there is another editir that can read MS RTF format perfectly, I forgot its name now. You could also get the free WordPerfect and see if it can translate for you, there is also some Word to * translators. Yes, WordPerfect is very nice. Unfortunely, neither SO nor WP are free in the opensource sense, but it was WP that got me to wondering if there was a serious OSS word processor project out there somewhere. -- Ed C.
Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
Ed Cogburn wrote: Yes, WordPerfect is very nice. Unfortunely, neither SO nor WP are free in the opensource sense, but it was WP that got me to wondering if there was a serious OSS word processor project out there somewhere. This thread piqued my interest. I ran across this site which might give a little info on wordprocessors (free and comercial) for Linux. http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/wp.html -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
Mark Wagnon wrote: Ed Cogburn wrote: Yes, WordPerfect is very nice. Unfortunely, neither SO nor WP are free in the opensource sense, but it was WP that got me to wondering if there was a serious OSS word processor project out there somewhere. This thread piqued my interest. I ran across this site which might give a little info on wordprocessors (free and comercial) for Linux. http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/wp.html BINGO! Thanks Mark. I had actually seen Christopher Browne's word processor web page a year or so back, and had forgot about it. It appears up to date; it has AbiWord in its list. -- Ed C.
