[NTLUG:Discuss] Office forms

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:22:30 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
greenglow484 at juno.com  said:
> I concur with James Skidmore's idea today, to try WordPerfect for Linux. 

The latest version, which uses WINE internally to emulate Win32, is
reportedly not as fast as the earlier port of WP 8, done by Gallium
Software to run natively on UNIX.

> I'm not able to comment intelligently on other, established Linux text
> editors there might be for your use; some of the older, established Linux
> tools.  Maybe someone else can comment on that further.  Also, I don't
> have much experience with Klyx.  Have you tried it?  My overall
> impression was, somewhat abbreviated like Abiword, but still a fine word
> processor/ editing / composition program.

While I agree that the functionality of AbiWord is a bit "abbreviated,"
KLyx should be _quite_ powerful; it has the document processing engine
of LaTeX and TeX sitting underneath.

> I've only briefly tried ApplixWare on Linux; it did seem to be more slim
> than StarOfc.  I definitely believe WordPerfect -- either V. 8, or,
> probably, their V. 2000 (or V. 9; it goes by both monikers; I own the
> Linux version 8, but not 9/2000) -- definitely_feels_, to me, like less
> of a resource hog than Star Ofc.  (That's also definitely true in the
> Windoze side of my machine; WordPerfect 2000 for Windoze does seem
> slimmer/ more efficient than StarOfc 6.2, although StarOfc. 6.2 also runs
> a little better than 6.1 did.)

ApplixWare is _quite_ a lot more efficient than StarOffice, and has a
document format underneath that, while not "official standardized,"
is text-based, so that you can look at the documents using a text
editor.  I haven't tried out the new GTK-based version of ApplixWare,
so I don't know if that change helps or hinders.
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