on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:09:09PM -0500, Michael Soulier (msoulier@nortelnetworks.com) wrote: > 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. What version of abiword are you using? I'm running 0.7 under unstable/testing, and it's definitely tolerable for light use. It's mostly what I pull out to do something that involves short text and hardcopy -- a letter, say. Version: 0.7.13-0.2 > 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. I've used DocBook for a couple of projects, and prefer LaTeX for generalized typeset output myself as well. For Real Work they're the Right Tools, IMO. > > > Or you can just be Yet Another Prick For Open Standards like me. > > Amen. /me grins -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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