On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > 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 Version: 0.7.12-0.ximian.2 for the absolute lightest of work (ie plain text) its fine, but if all your doing is plain text nedit is far more reliable. i would probably be running unstable on that box if i had faster internet connection, atm i just don't fancy the idea of a 20MB download a day or a 60MB download a week. i would LOVE to get rid of this ximian crap though. > 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. except for someone who isn't interested in learning them, latex is fine for me, but not for the user of the computer in question. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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