On 5/26/2010 8:27 AM, James Greenidge wrote:
Re:
Myself, I'd love to see a stand-alone OOo Writer that'd both run
quicker and use less memory, especially in older Macs. The closest
Macs have to such is the moribund AbiWord, which did a fair job
handling OOo docs before it went belly-up. I hope OOo code is open
source enough to allow an enterprising guy to take a whack at a
stand-alone OOo Writer.
Before OO.o I was an ardent Abiword supporter and user. I wondered why
you describe it as being "belly up". I went to the web site and read up
on it. The company that had been supporting the research chose to stop,
but the developers continue working. There is a current version of
Abiword, 2.8.4. I just fetched and installed it.
It doesn't do a good job of managing OO.o Writer documents. I edit a
newsletter for the NC Suzuki Association. While it opens the
newsletters, and the images I use are there, it makes garbage of text flow.
I won't argue with you on the moribund part, but it isn't belly up, not
quite yet. And I point out that they have had a grammar checker that
actually works for a long time (unlike OO.o's 'language tool' that even
screwed up my spelling checker). Oops. The Abiword grammar checker DID
work back when. I haven't tried it since I moved to OO.o.
--David Teague
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