Word processor for 6.1

[Jon Drews]

On 9/4/06, Erik Norgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org> wrote:
> Perry Hutchison wrote:
> > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1?
> > AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build.

> There is a commercial program, textmaker (www.softmaker.com), which I
> have found much better than Abiword in handling word documents, but I
> doubt it supports OpenDocument.
>

 I'll second the nomination for TextMaker. It works quite well. I run
it under Linux emulation.

 I believe the next version will have support for OpenOffice
documents. IIRC, if you buy the current version, then you can upgrade
to the 2006 version for free.

-- 
Kind regards,
Jonathan