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From: Lars Hofhansl <lhofhans@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: A suggestion to Linux/Bsd Developers
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 13:43:03 -0600
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Brad Collyer wrote:
> 
> On 10 Feb 1997 00:23:46 GMT, dmcook@mozart.cts.com (David M. Cook)
> wrote:
> 
> >>From the previous thread in this newsgroup it is getting clear that,
> >>unix is lacking a "cheap real word processor". (like MS Word)
> >
> >Your impression is incorrect.
> 
> His impression is very correct.
> 
> I've been searching for a good word processor for quite some time now
> without much luck.  I don't want to buy Motif just to demo an
> application.  Motif would probably cost approx. $150.00 (CDN) if I
> chose to run the StarOffice applications.  In fact, I'd love to run
> StarOffice, it sounds like an excellent collection of apps. and the
> screen shots I have seen look like there are many features I look for.
> 

What features exactly would you expect from a wordprocessor,
that are not included in Web-Authoring tools like
netscape-gold or (especially) amaya (it needs motif,
but a precompiled statically linked version for linux
is available)?
Well, admittedly there are some missing features (like setting the
pagelayout etc.), but they are coming close to what I expect
from a wordprocessor (your mileage may vary).

	Lars