Annoyances:
1. Screen redraws after you use the right click on word spell
check/replace, and the page doesn't always end up in exactly the same
position it was before. Still a nifty feature but gets annoying after a
while.
2. Random, non reproduceable segfaults when i hit the arrow keys and
then the backspace key. this only seemed to happen after i got to the
latter half of the second page of my report. I tried to reproduce it
but i was unsuccessful. I will try again in a few days after my paper
is turned in,
3. Very slow redraw when unrolling the window in WindowMaker.
4. Select all causes segfaults after documents get past about the
middle of the second page. I logged this as bug 633
(http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=633).
5. The printed out-put when printed to a file doesn't always resemble
the on screen document. What i mean by this is that the printed output
is often longer than the document looks in abiword. Another problem I
have had on this report is that my text on the third page was cut off
like it was going to wrap it to a 4th page on output but the 4th page
was not there. I had to insert a pagebreak after the last character of
the paper to get it to show the last block of text on the printed
output. This is a major problem but I am still testing when it happens
and seeing about other workarounds.
Now the features I would like to see:
1. Detect and either change or red squiggily if I use an 'i' instead of
'I' in a paper. I have a problem with doing that and I know some word
processers check for this and change it accordingly.
2. A print preview function. I was thinking that you might beable to
use gv for this...atleast on the *nix side. LyX does something like it
with thier "View Postscript" function. could be very useful.
I turned in the rough draft today but i had to save it as a html file
and then upload it to my ASU account and print it out that way. As for
the printing problems I can not be a great source of debugging info
because i do not have a printer. I just print to a file and then ps2pdf
it to a pdf and then upload and print from someplace on campus.
On a side note Abiword is mentioned in the Linux Magazine november issue
under the Linux Office Suite roundup.