[TriLUG] What's wrong with AbiWord?

[Matt Matthews]

Kevin made a comment last night about AbiWord not being up to snuff. Is
this a generally held view? I've found it to be useful many times for
opening .doc files (admittedly something I really don't have to do every
day) which did have some wonky formatting, but at least were readable.
Further, in the few times I've used it as a word processor, it has
served me quite well.

That said, I generally use LaTeX for documents I really want to look
"professional", over all other text formatting programs.

What is preventing AbiWord from being a drop-in replacement for MS Word?

Regards,
matt

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