Hi all,

I want to replace my favorite word processor "MSWord 97" with a Linux word processor
I need something simple and user friendly that can suppress automatically the extra linefeeds I got when I copy a web
page and paste it into Kword for example
I would appreciate Kword to do the job for me really so that I could print the page reformatted !

I hear kword has a text importer but don't know how to use it §

I Jeanrev
I think Open Office can do the work without any pain.
You can test also de windows version....

http://www.openoffice.org/

I would have thought the best Linux word processor was OpenOffice. or if you want to pay, StarOffice.
Its a huge app though.

If you still use Windows occasionally OpenOffice is probably the best choice as there is a Windows version available as well as a Linux version.

I'd suggest you try abiword, I prefer it to OOo writer. Theres also a windows version available.

Abiword homepage

There's also a software title from Softmaker, called 'Textmaker'. It looks brilliant, but last time I tried it (almost a year ago though), the .doc-filters weren't really up to par with OOO.

You wouldn't advise Kword ?
looked fine to me but I cannot paste a plain text and then remoce some special characters ...
"linefeeds" in fact
i tried the "find & replace" option but couldn't get it to erase automatically all the linefeeds
somebody has the answer ?
can Kword skip the linefeeds in a text ? that is the question


Thanks

A comprimise....??
what if you keep them in, save it and then strip them out with a script
You could use awk or perl but the dos2unix might already work for you as well as getting rid of other annoyances too.

Its not that i wouldn't advise you to use Kword.
You said you wanted something to replace MS.word . Well the only app i know of thats big enough to do that, is Openoffice or staroffice.

OpenOffice.org Writer or AbiWord.

OpenOffice.org is getting better and better. I believe it is what you are looking for:

http://www.kirkmcpike.com/column/archive/2...5.04/index.html

Kword is awfully basic.

My vote goes to abiword. I like it over OOo write just beause it follows my GTK theme (typical me) and is a bit faster

Replace MS WORD.....
WHY ?????


seriously work out which bits you think are important. Word is bloatware and SOFFICE and OO copy the bloatware as well.

If what you wanna do is simple copy/paste and saveas text then look at simpler ones SIAG/AbiWord are mid range, kword is VERY basic etc.

I use kword but as a simple text editor. apart from being plain text (opensource) its more or less like old win3.1 MS write.... very basic but I use it for opening README's etc.

I want a word processor that is able to eliminate the extra linefeed I get when I copy a web page into that word processor in order to arrange the text before printing it to on paper

I used to do it with MS Word via the feature "find and replace"

if I ask to find the linefeed and I leave the replace field empty MS Word erase all the linefeeds automatically

that is what I want any linux word processor to be able to do

I could not succeed with Kword and thought I didn't know the trick

but if Abiword can do it i would prefer a light Word processor of course

I will try abiword and let you know if it is as good as my still favourite MS Word 97

I have downloaded the abiword main rpm but I have no documentation and no language check
I would like to know which plug-ins are necessary to have a documentation and the french & english spelling check

thanks for your attention

I tried to install the main RPM but it was refused cause of dependencies
I don't know how to get all the proper dependencies

In fact I need the correct procedure to install the 2.0.6 version of Abiword
with dependencies, the spelling check and the doc availables in the help menu summary
What shall I do to get it all ?

thanks again

I would assume it's in an urmpi repo somewhere...

http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php

This site helps get your URPMI repositories set up correctly.

man -a urpmi

urpmi --help

Hi all

How come the abiword site doesn't give any information on howto install the last version ?
I had to send a mail to have access to the FAQ page and there is apparently no forum about their products
anybody interested in the abiword install ?

I would suggest following Pzatch's suggestion and urpmi the package. It will get all of the deps for you automatically.

Just adding my vote for Abiword!

It is, IMO, a lot more stable than OOo Writer, it is also less bloated, seems to handle MS Word conversions better and... has a better looking icon

and Im addig my vote for easy urpmi

seriously, mandrake without urpmi sources is like a car with no gas (or something)

I agree to that. Setting up urpmi sources is thé thing to do to get everything out of Mandrake. That makes me love Mandrake. Want some SW, just indicate your box which one and (most of the time this just works, only very rarely a dependency or signature is not OK) it gets downloaded and installed. You only have to start using it. SW installation made easy!

Ciao,

Sitor

As I dawn my flame vest

If you have to have it just use MS Office97 in Linux via wine.

http://frankscorner.org/modules.php?op=mod...artid=97&page=1

Before I get too flamed for the above...

I use OpenOffice.org for everything. I dont have Window$ installed on my Laptop. Somtimes OOo doesnt like to open word file just right. So I will open them in MS word2000 and convert them to another format like word97 or .rtf.

True dat! I wonder why Mandrake don't provide you with at least main and contrib set up out-of-the-box?

One of lifes great mysteries SoulSe
that great Oxymoron ... mandrake marketing ?

These and probably more should be on any mirror in the contrib folder.

abiword
Lean and fast full-featured word processor.

abiword-plugin-abicommand
This plugin offers a command line interface to AbiWord.

abiword-plugin-abigimp
Enables editing of your images in The GIMP.

abiword-plugin-aiksaurus
Plugin to allow abiword to connect with AikSaurus.

abiword-plugin-babelfish
Plugin to allow abiword to show babelfish translations.

abiword-plugin-freetranslation
Plugin to allow abiword to connect with freetranslation.

abiword-plugin-gdict
Plugin to allow abiword to use gdict

abiword-plugin-gdkpixbuf
Plugin to allow abiword to import several image types with gdk-pixbuf

abiword-plugin-graphics
Plugins to allow abiword to import images.

abiword-plugin-impexp
Plugins to allow abiword to import file types from other wordprocessors.

abiword-plugin-ots
Plugin to summarize text.

abiword-plugin-shell
Enables redirection of shell output into AbiWord.

abiword-plugin-urldict
Plugin to allow abiword to use dict through a web browser

abiword-plugin-wikipedia
Plugin to allow abiword to connect with WikiPedia.