On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote: > Ryan Pavlik wrote: > > Mark wrote: > >> If I could get a decent keyboard and OpenOffice.org working with my > >> N800, I'd be in 7th heaven. (I've heard Abiword is being ported, but > >> I've tried it on my desktop and it's just not a workable alternative > >> for me.) > >> > > Abiword has been ported and is in closed beta testing now. I'm not sure > > why it wouldn't be a workable alternative - it's certainly more than > > workable for several million people as far as I know. I'm sorry if the word "workable" was confusing. I didn't mean that Abiword doesn't work or even that it's anything less than a great product. What I meant was that it doesn't meet my needs. The documents with which I work usually have a great deal of formatting and other features that Abiword either doesn't support, or doesn't support *well* when the original document is not in Abiword's native format. When I open a M$ Word document in OpenOffice, it appears exactly the same as it does in Word, but when I try that in Abiword, it requires a bunch of fiddling & editing before it comes out right. (That's assuming that all the basic elements are intact.) Then when it's converted back to Word, it has to be reformatted all over again. If all you need to work with is documents on your local machine, Abiword is great. But if you need your documents to be extremely "portable", it's not quite ideal. I'll admit, though, that it's been more than a year since I last tried Abiword, and that I'll give it a chance on my N800. It certainly would be a whole lot better than the nothing that ships with the device. Mark
