Re: Word processors

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

> 
> 
> At Jean's request,  I tried out abi-word.
> 
> At the moment, almost all features are unimplemented. 
> 
> Basically , it's a text editor that allows you to choose different fonts
> and choose right/left/center alignment. 
> 
> On the positive side, the fonts rendering doesn't suck too much and the UI
> looks nice. The package doesn't look that ugly even if it doesn't do much.
> 
> It exports postscript OK, so I guess it should print just fine.
> 
> I haven't made it crash, but then, I haven't done very much with it.
> 
> At this early stage of developement, it seems unlikely that one would do
> much with it. 
> 
> It looks like kword is beating it on features. Kword already allows one to
> do a lot formatting wise ( super/subscripots, headers, frames , embed
> other koffice components. ) 
> 
> I think they might have
> some kind of word filter, though I haven't checked carefully.
> 
> IMHO, koffice probably has more potential, but maybe abi is more reliable
> right now. The only thing that doesn't look good about Abi is you click on
> something and get a dialogue saying "not implemented". They don't want to
> release binaries until 0.7 and I respect their judgement.
> 

What I infer from this is that it would be wiser to keep Maxwell in
next edition along with one or both of LyX/KlyX

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org