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

>
> 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.
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Damn it! Is this Hewbrew AbiWord or are lots of people finding AbiWord-2.2.3
crashes on them?

Martin

> 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 22:41:47 2005