Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:59:16 -0500 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to go along with it. Nope... Gnumeric is the spreadsheet that AbiWord Unix users typically install. Dia for charting, Planner for project management. ah, gnumeric is the gnome/UNIX spreadsheet.. like kspread is to kde. for my older/slower laptop, abiword and gnumeric sound like a good choice. Since I already have office on my desktop, and it works, I think I will leave well enough alone. I run AbiWord on this old 500MHz G4 Laptop and it is fast. Launch time is hardly a couple of seconds. Amit
Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord
On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: AbiWord is much lighter smaller than OOo. I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...) but I never used it. is abiword just a word processor, as opposed to a full suite, like OO ?? does it do .DOC conversion? smaller lighter normally means less features. But I really don't use THAT many features of OO.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 11:38, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: AbiWord is much lighter smaller than OOo. I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...) but I never used it. is abiword just a word processor, as opposed to a full suite, like OO ?? Abi_Word_ should give you a hint... does it do .DOC conversion? smaller lighter normally means less features. But I really don't use THAT many features of OO.. Yes, it doesn't convert Word files as well as OOo does. But as a stand-alone plugin-capable WP that supports ODF, it's great. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHp2yPS9HxQb37XmcRAmaZAKCzy4WH81phYR/Pi/vUXliXnT1txgCfSG8M dP2zRRMmHGNI/9FUcB35DUc= =qTSY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord
On Feb 4, 2008 9:38 AM, Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: AbiWord is much lighter smaller than OOo. I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...) but I never used it. is abiword just a word processor, as opposed to a full suite, like OO ?? does it do .DOC conversion? smaller lighter normally means less features. But I really don't use THAT many features of OO.. Abiword is just a word processor, and it does work with .doc, although I don't know how well compared to OOo. It has more than enough features for me, but I don't use it much mainly because it doesn't save as .odt by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:25:33PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Abi_Word_ should give you a hint... right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to go along with it. AbiWord was originally written by a company called AbiSource (and has been free software from the start). That company aimed at developing a complete office productivity suite but only got as far as starting up AbiWord. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: AbiWord is much lighter smaller than OOo. I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...) but I never used it. is abiword just a word processor, as opposed to a full suite, like OO ?? does it do .DOC conversion? smaller lighter normally means less features. But I really don't use THAT many features of OO.. Abiword is a word processor and very competent. It will take in Word Docs and process modify them, but I find that saving everything as RTF means that anybody can open them no matter what processor they use. Gnumeric is all you need for spreadsheeting - install all the optional extras, plugins, doc files, etc., and the combination of both of them are all that a small office requires for the majority of work. If you need something to handle presentation work, install Scribus. I also use Xfig to create process control, haccp charts, etc. Everything loads quickly and no functionality is lost, at least, not any that 98% of the population would require. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 14:25, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Abi_Word_ should give you a hint... right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to go along with it. Nope... Gnumeric is the spreadsheet that AbiWord Unix users typically install. Dia for charting, Planner for project management. does it do .DOC conversion? smaller lighter normally means less features. But I really don't use THAT many features of OO.. Yes, it doesn't convert Word files as well as OOo does. But as a stand-alone plugin-capable WP that supports ODF, it's great. my problem is, most of the time I have docs in odt format that I have to convert to .DOC format, to send to others.. and spreadsheets.. still, the plugin matrix shows LOTS of capabilities!! nice, I may take a look anyway, thanks! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHp3fNS9HxQb37XmcRAiZ5AKDTzmoeEt6/a5bFwYVrSTi615eCuACfeRra H3zt1AmUn8vXo0kZodQS8/A= =Kkmr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord
On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to go along with it. Nope... Gnumeric is the spreadsheet that AbiWord Unix users typically install. Dia for charting, Planner for project management. ah, gnumeric is the gnome/UNIX spreadsheet.. like kspread is to kde. for my older/slower laptop, abiword and gnumeric sound like a good choice. Since I already have office on my desktop, and it works, I think I will leave well enough alone. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459
Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord
On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Abi_Word_ should give you a hint... right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to go along with it. does it do .DOC conversion? smaller lighter normally means less features. But I really don't use THAT many features of OO.. Yes, it doesn't convert Word files as well as OOo does. But as a stand-alone plugin-capable WP that supports ODF, it's great. my problem is, most of the time I have docs in odt format that I have to convert to .DOC format, to send to others.. and spreadsheets.. still, the plugin matrix shows LOTS of capabilities!! nice, I may take a look anyway, thanks! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459
