[TriLUG] What's wrong with AbiWord?

[acoliver]

In short:  http://www.openoffice.org

Sun made star office to opensource.  As you may have noticed Kevin's
presentation was StarOffice (or openoffice) based.  Most folks who have to
interoperate with Windows documents will also find it more complete.  So
abiword will go the way of most opensource webserver projects for instance:
few, far between and eclipsed by apache.

>Kevin made a comment last night about AbiWord not being up to snuff. Is
>this a generally held view? I've found it to be useful many times for
>opening .doc files (admittedly something I really don't have to do every
>day) which did have some wonky formatting, but at least were readable.
>Further, in the few times I've used it as a word processor, it has
>served me quite well.
>
>That said, I generally use LaTeX for documents I really want to look
>"professional", over all other text formatting programs.
>
>What is preventing AbiWord from being a drop-in replacement for MS Word?
>
>Regards,
>matt