Re: OpenOffice.org

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 23:19 +0100, sxxx@o2.pl wrote:

>
> Well, I would really like to list disadvantages of Abiword in
> comparison with OpenOffice Writer, so you could get a clue what
> ought to be changed in Abiword. Unfortunately my English is not good
> enough for that yet as I am not a native speaker. But i'm working on
> it ;) Still, I can tell you what I like most about OOo Writer, and
> this is, what Abiword totally lacks. Namely - superb printing
> options of Writer. I mean multiple pages on one sheet, brochure
> printing, only left pages, only right pages, reversed page order
> printing etc. For example - printing booklets in OOo Writer is a
> piece of cake, and in Abiword it would be a nightmare. That's the
> most important thing for me, personally.

For that kind of stuff - I tend to use LaTeX.
Anything publishing related I use LaTeX.

I use AbiWord as a word processor for stuff like letters and documents I
send to people.

btw - Gnome Office has some really cool integration with LaTeX.
Gnumeric - for example, I can export a spreadsheet to LaTeX and it comes
out really good looking. With oocalc - I could not do that, I had to
export to a format that a perl script could understand to make the
latex, and it didn't always look so good.

Dia (not sure if it is officially part of Gnome Office) has good (needs
work but still good) integration with LaTeX. etc.

> If this changed I would
> probably go back to Abiword though, cause it works faster and I like
> it's interface. Of course there are many more disadvantages of
> Abiword like poor MS Word files export, and even worse HTML export.

The MS Word export I have found adequate, though I don't use that per se
- I just export to rtf. The point being - if I send someone a doc in
rtf, they know I have an rtf word processor and hopefully will export
docs to rtf themselves to respond to me. rtf is better for
sending/receiving documents.

For html export, I never use that myself.
I use bluefish for html.

Every word processor to html exporter I have ever used has required
manual cleanup anyway - so if html is the target, I use bluefish to
write it.

However, I have been extremely impressed with tex4ht processing of LaTeX
documents into xml - particularly when MathML is involved.

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Received on Fri Nov 4 18:25:33 2005