On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > The instances I'm thinking of actually involve formatting. I use the bns for most of my word processing, and I find myself using it's extensive formatting features a lot. > > If you need to enhance a document with special fonts, formatting, > > etc., then fine but most times, Word is a huge hog. You can also use html for this. It has wonderful tags such as <center> <strong> <emphasis> (which is not the same), etc. And, it lets you link other documents and other locations in the same document. Having said all this, I should point out that this same topic has cropped up on blinux in the last 24 hours. An interesting tool was suggested there called "Almost Free Text." Find it at: http://www.maplefish.com/todd/aft.html