on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:22:06PM -0900, Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net) wrote: > 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. Probably. I've always found if I'm using nedit I keep asking myself why I'm not using vim ;-) Though I'll sometimes pull up nedit for cut'n'paste out of Netscape edit dialogs. > 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. Looking over recent updates -- 10-20 MB is fairly typical, running on the order of 30 minutes to a copule of hours. If you can run this overnight, it's probably acceptable if you can't othewise dedicate a connection. Note that in my case it's a dedicated 56K modem connection. > > 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. How about Lyx or Klyx? Heard good things, haven't used them. -- 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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