On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:33:54PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > StarOffice, that bloated stuck pig of an office suite, isn't packaged. > It probably offers the best compatibility with MS file formats, however. any other suggestions? abiword is unusably buggy in potato (and helix/ximian) kword in the unofficial potato repository is also quite buggy (it makes most of the text invisible randomly when your typing). ted might be ok, i haven't done much testing yet. but its rather limited and a bit klunky. in my case i don't give a damn about MS compatiblity but i do need to find something that provides the basic features a self respecting word processor should provide, and most importantly it has to be usable, abiword and kword are not. (i doubt staroffice would be either given this box is a 166 pentium with only 96MB of ram, openoffice barely compiles from what i hear and would not be any lighter) note that this isn't for me, if i needed such i may very well use latex or something, but that is not an option in this case. > Or you can just be Yet Another Prick For Open Standards like me. yeah! -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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