[xubuntu-users] Focuswrite?

[Peter Flynn]

On 11/14/2013 07:32 PM, James Freer wrote:
> On 11/14/13, Gerard <gerry.gazules at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone have a good word to say for Focuswrite?
>> G.
> 
> I tried it once but found it rather limited. If you want a simple word
> processor you could try Ted rtf editor. But it doesn't import into
> LO-writer or Abiword so well. They seem to have sorted out Abiword now
> so the new stable release isn't far away. Ver 2.9.2 was a development
> version when debian based distros had a missing dependency (as i
> understand it). I used gedit and then copied into google docs for
> formatting.
> 
> For most word processing I preferred Abiword as it was a little more
> lightweight than LO-writer.

Abiword is excellent, and includes 99% of the stuff you use 99% of the
time. Most people only use about 5% of the facilities bloatware like
Word and LO/OO provide.

For a glimpse of the future, have a look at what Poetica is planning
(https://poetica.com/)

///Peter