Modernizing AbiWord code

Post by sjwright » Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 8:15 AM UTC

hub_ wrote: post #57

sandyarmstrong wrote: post #53

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I thought ClarisWorks was the suite, and Claris Word was the name for the word processing component? I could be misremembering, of course. I haven't used it in 20 years or so. But yes, I'm aware of the history of the product.

Nope. ClarisWord never existed — ClarisWorks was the product. Claris had MacWrite II for a time because they were the software spin-off from Apple, and that was their stand alone word processor offering, not much better than Claris Works, which was one application unlike MS-Office.

So much so that this thread is currently the #1 result on Google for "ClarisWord".

Post by emdd » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 12:19 AM UTC

drivingmenuts wrote: post #60

ciconia wrote: post #41

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Apple Pages is a toy. It's missing some pretty basic features like even/odd page margins, and becomes annoyingly slow once you do stuff like tables inside multiple columns. I recently prepared a pretty complex but not very long document using it and the experience was pretty unpleasant.

I wish they'd open source Pages, Numbers and Keynote. They really are decent programs that deserve better than Apple abandoning them. Of course, Word 5 is still the gold standard, as far as I'm concerned. :)

Yep! Considering Keynote is the best presentation tool-- but it just sits there. I'd kill for the iWork platform to go open source.

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