Re: An article about AbiWord in the Internet site of an Israeli newspaper

I'm growing annoyed at people claiming that AbiWord's
spell-checking support is sub-par.

AbiWord on Unix supports both Hspell and Uspell. The
former is a superb Hebrew spell checking service. I
can't speak for the latter.

Additionally, there have been a few bugs filed in
Bugzilla complaining about our inadequate
dictionaries. The bug reports seem limited to the
Win32 platform.

I really think that we should evaluate the merits of
using Enchant on all of our platforms and simply ditch
our Ispell code.

Best,
Dom

--- Omer Zak <omerz@actcom.co.il> wrote:

>
> The article surveys the AbiWord, Paint.NET and
> Screamer Radio
> applications.
> About AbiWord, the gist is as follows.
>
> Excellent wordprocessor, which serves as MS-Word
> replacement.
> It is lightweight in both size (4.8MB vs. few
> hundred MB in OpenOffice
> package) and in startup time.
>
> Good value for those users, who want only to write a
> letter.
>
> AbiWord contains Hebrew GUI which is a bit defective
> [Omer: mea culpa,
> I didn't update translations and made no effort to
> finish them]. Full
> Hebrew support in editing documents, except for
> Hebrew dictionaries.
> Good integration with English and numbers.
>
> Summary of advantages: Free Software, comfortable,
> familiar, does not
> consume resources.
> Summary of disadvantages: is not part of an office
> suite, does not
> include Hebrew dictionary, is not fully stable.
> Bottom line: excellent replacement for MS-Word.
> Grade: 4.5 stars of maximum 5 stars.
> Version: 2.2.3.
>
> --- Omer
>
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 17:11 +0000, Alan Horkan
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Omer Zak wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:29:28 +0200
> > > From: Omer Zak <omerz@actcom.co.il>
> > > To: "Developers, AbiWord"
> <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> > > Subject: An article about AbiWord in the
> Internet site of an Israeli
> > > newspaper
> > >
> > >
> > > (The article is in Hebrew.)
> > >
>
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3042644,00.html
> >
> > I dont understand Hebrew (and neither does
> babelfish).
> > Can you give us the gist of what it says?
> >
> > Is it a favourable review?
> >
> > - Alan H.
> >
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Received on Wed Feb 9 22:51:35 2005