Subject: Re: Doomed efforts.
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@isc.org>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/12/2000 00:12:04
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Ted Lemon wrote:

# Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:16:23 -0700
# From: Ted Lemon <mellon@isc.org>
# To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
# Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: Doomed efforts. 
# 
# 
# > So, I'm trying to find anything, anything at all, that groks the full majesty
# > of MS Word's insanely broken formats.  As an experiment, I'm going to try
# > running ApplixWare 5.0 on NetBSD-current.  Anyone got any useful or relevant
# > experience?
# 
# I've had surprisingly good luck with AbiWord, actually.   As an added
# bonus, it's open source!

The problem with abiword is it doesn't know about TTF and it won't use
X fonts.  It insists on using its own ugly font format.

# 
# 			       _MelloN_
# 


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