Jonathan Drews wrote:

For the SuSE list members here is a very nice overview of Koffice's Kword.

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: KOffice Review: KWord Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:38:16 +0000 From: Kent Nguyen <kent@mslinux.com> To: KDE User List <kde-user@lists.netcentral.net>

Hi guys,

I finished up the first part of my KOffice review: KWord. If you're interested you can read all about KWord here:

http://www.mslinux.com/reviews/koffice.html

KWord is a frame and component based word processor. One of its kind to date. It a good design: doc/view model and an excellent team.

He might like to know that with KDE2 you can configure the login manager to automatically log a default user in without asking for password on kdm startup. This sort of thing gives us Unixy-types the screaming heabie-jeabies of course, but it's there and might be worthwhile in that sort of context (strictly home-single-user system). His notes on KWord being a frame-based wp and capable of DTP... I haven't used KWord myself that much yet, though I keep meaning to, and I probably will next time I do something where I want to dictate the layout and formatting. (At the moment I use Star Office to open Word files other people send me, and write new stuff of my own in LyX.) When I have played with it on occasion, waiting for it to become stable, it struck me how like Impression / Impression Publisher on the old Acorn RISC OS systems it was. I deeply suspect someone on the KWord team has experience of it! (Don't worry, I think this is a good thing - I used to really like Impression) -- Rachel