Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>
> I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and
> AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any
> other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the
> goals is being able to read and write MS Word files.
>
AbiWord has that goal and is likely to achieve it in a relatively short
timeframe, I'm sure the others have it too but the authors probably don't
ahve the time/expertise to implement it. (Though, since AbiWord is GPL, if
it manages it the others may follow in short order by borrowing the code.)
Other projects include:
gwp (Gnome Word Processor)
go (Another Gnome Word Processor)
Maxwell (was a commercial product, now GPL)
KWord (KDE word processor)
In the meantime you can sort of read word files with the 'catdoc' program
which is in Debian...
Havoc
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