Re: AbiWord 0.7.3 cooments

nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:47:53 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Eric W. Sink wrote:

> > Is the current version stable enough for people who know little about
> > computers to use?
> > Do you recommend AbiWord for a production machine?
> > (yes, I know it's not a 1.0 release, but neither is enlightenment :)
>
> I guess it depends on your needs and expectations. Another person
> responded to this note with a glowing recommendation. We appreciate
> the kudos, but we also wonder if AbiWord is truly deserving of such
> high praise. Yet. :-)

For something not complete yet, it is quite nice to use. Although many
fuctions aren't implemented yet, it is a nice clean interface with little
bloat. This is all I every really want in a word processor. (Well, I want
tab chacracters to be able to be underlined also, but I think that's just
me). Yes, kudos are in order for a fine program so far

>
> AbiWord is still missing some very important features. It's hard to
> imagine living without those features in heavy usage.
>

Agreed, hence the version number <1

> Personally, I use AbiWord for almost all of my word processing needs.
> But then, I force myself to do so in the hope that "dogfooding" will
> benefit the project.
>
> As for stability: AbiWord doesn't crash very often. I did experience
> a crash a couple of days ago, much to my surprise. I've written 20
> page documents, and I've had 3 hour editing sessions, with no
> problems. I'll confess that I wished for tables and outline mode
> quite a few times during those 3 hours, but at least the app didn't
> crash. :-)

Not something you see with beta / alpha "in development software" It's
very cool and I'm glad (and thankful) that such devlopment is being nmade
>
> --
> Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
> SourceGear Corporation
> eric@sourcegear.com
>

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