Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Aug 2005 12:20 UTC
OpenOffice.org receives most of the attention among FOSS office suites, but users shouldn't forget that free software includes at least two other word processors: AbiWord, and KWord, part of the KOffice suite. From their inception, both have been playing catch-up with OpenOffice.org's Writer. But now, after several years of development, AbiWord and KWord are both reaching early maturity. How do Writer, AbiWord, and KWord compare?
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2005-06-29
Lucky for us programmers we have emacs
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Word's difficult interface is one of the things that made me flirt with latex for several months. I've come to see that both solutions are a pain in the butt in some way or the other. In the end, I'm just sick of people treating .doc as a standard. Frankly, Microsoft needs to learn what 'n' means and we can standardize on plain text (Wordpad actually properly interprets 'n'). If you need more: post script or pdf. If you need more than that: Technology can't do more, maybe you should rethink the problem