Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-08 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I wasn't whining. ;) But I did want to know what the rationale was. My dad uses Abi for all of his office work (lots of Spanish and English), and wanted to know if there was something wrong with it. If it was causing problems with fonts, that answers my question. - Paul R On Mon, 2002-04-0

Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-08 Thread civileme
shane wrote: >On Sunday 07 April 2002 12:05 am, Randy Kramer opened a hailing frequency >and transmitted: > >>shane wrote: >> >>>On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodríguez opened a hailing >>> >>>frequency and transmitted: >>> Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? >>>if i

Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-07 Thread Pascal Goguey
Hello, On Sunday 07 April 2002 19:51, you wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 01:12, Robin Turner wrote: > > 1. A fully featured office suite compatible with the dreaded MS Office. > > OpenOffice is pretty much on track there. > > I think this is probably true for most users who work exclusively in on

Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-07 Thread Charles Muller
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 01:12, Robin Turner wrote: > 1. A fully featured office suite compatible with the dreaded MS Office. > OpenOffice is pretty much on track there. I think this is probably true for most users who work exclusively in one European language. But for those of us whose work requ

Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-06 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:06, Paul wrote: > Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? How about the 8.2 Power Pack, is it in there? *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan

Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-06 Thread shane
On Sunday 07 April 2002 12:05 am, Randy Kramer opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > shane wrote: > > On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodríguez opened a hailing > > > > frequency and transmitted: > > > Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? > > > > if i remember correctly

Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-06 Thread Lee
I prefer AbiWord because it seems to accept other format documents with the fewest errors. Not perfectly, but very often acceptable. I haven't had good luck with KWord or other provided WP programs. On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:05 am, Randy Kramer wrote: > shane wrote: > > On Saturday 06 Apri

Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-06 Thread Randy Kramer
shane wrote: > On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodríguez opened a hailing > frequency and transmitted: > > Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? > if i remember correctly this was asked, and the general feel seemed to be > "cause they haven't changed the package in so long it is da

Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-06 Thread shane
On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodríguez opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? if i remember correctly this was asked, and the general feel seemed to be "cause they haven't changed the package in so long it is damn near useless no

[newbie] abiword not in 8.2?

2002-04-06 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? - Paul R _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com