Subject: Re: default font size
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 24 2000 - 21:06:31 CDT
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, James A. Ritchie wrote:
> These are my only credentials for input. But as a
> professional writer I want to get away from Word, and
> AbiWord appears to have great promise.
Well, thanks.
> I also need the capability to "Save As" everything
> possible for the many markets I use and other systems I
> send to.
Well, this is currently being worked on (word export). Hopefully we wil
include wp format in the future.
>
> To replace Word, I need not only word count, but also
> character count, including space count, because as a
> professional writer I don't count words, I count space.
> Too hard to explain quickly, but anyone interested can
> look at the format articles on the SFWA website.
>
If you just mean counting spaces ( ' ' ) then we have got you covered, as
this is already done. If not, I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
> Cut/Copy Paste must work flawlessly with many other
> programs.
At least in X Windows, AbiWord properly respects the middle click
conventions. Not sure about other programs.
>
> Drag and drop is also important.
Drag and Drop between programs will require use of something like corba,
for which i do not believe we currently have support.
CWordpad is the best
> I've seen at this. I haven't yet found a file type
> other than .pdf that it won't open, including Yeah,
> Write files that will crash Word every time.
If there are specs for the format availible, maybe someone will eventually
write an importer.
>
> And to make me get rid of Word, something I'd dearly
> love to do, I have to have a grammar check program.
Well, I've always hated grammer checkers, but I think the major obstacle
to us having one is that I'm not sure there are any open source grammar
checkers availible currently (nothing on freshmeat, for instance).
Hope this answers some of you questions. Keep using AbiWord :-)
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://sam.rh.uchicago.edu
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