Re: Star Office
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:53:51PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 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.
Abiword and kword are both crap currently. I'm sure they'll develop into
fine tools, but I wouldn't be relying on them just yet.
Personally, I do all of my work in either LaTeX or DocBook. LaTeX looks
better overall, and is easier to customize IMO, but DocBook offers quite a few
easy conversions and the XML DTD is probably going to be a major force in open
standards. If you want WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean), use LyX.
Otherwise, keep hunting for WYSIAYG (read... All You Get) tools.
> > Or you can just be Yet Another Prick For Open Standards like me.
Amen.
Mike
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