OpenOffice alternative?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/5/6 R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com>:
> What alternatives to OpenOffice do people use for a word processor?
>
> I'm struggling with OO.  Since the 8.04 upgrade arial won't appear as
> arial and saved arial documents come up with a bizarre-looking font
> called Albany, which isn't anything like Albany on the font websites
> and which doesn't seem to exist on my machine under that name.
>
> Also, OO wouldn't correctly print a saved letter that had an anchored
> table imported from the OO spreadsheet.  Only the first cell of the
> table was printed.
>
> I tried re-installing, and that did fix other issues that I had.
>
> So, I'm looking for a word processor that "just works" [TM]   :-)
> What do people use?
>

Enable Medibuntu, then:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

That will get you the Arial font.

I have experimented with different office programs, and I really liked
KOffice. But I always go back to OOo for the wonderful community in
the mailing list and the fact that no matter how obscure a feature it
turns out that I need in any unusual corner case, OOo has that
feature. I am really, really, starting to appreciate and love that
application. I advise you to sign up for the OOo mailing list and sort
out the issues, you'll be happy that you did.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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