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>"That's Abiword. A much smaller and cheaper piece of software. That is all that most office workers need. So why is Office, a huge piece of software the defaul
by pmelendez 13y ago
>"That's Abiword. A much smaller and cheaper piece of software.
That is all that most office workers need. So why is Office, a huge piece of software the default?"
Abiword's grammar checker is not nearly as good as Word's. That is specially in non-english laguanges. Also I would add to that list all the templates and design that Word brings out-of-box.
I am a weird case because I use Abiword at work and Office at home. And at least for short documents (10 pages max.) the experience on Word is just more enjoyable to me.
- sinkasapa 13y ago> That is specially in non-english laguanges. From a linguist's point of view, the language that English is grammar checked against in Word has always been a broken approximation of an uninformed prescriptivist's version of English. An example opinion from the guy who wrote the book on English grammar: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005061.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005061.h...
- jeltz 13y agoLast I used Word it did not have any grammar checker for Swedish and its spell checking was terrible (though better than LibreOffice). It has hopefully improved the last about 5 years though. I have actually only used one working spell checker for Swedish: stava. And the ideas behind it are trivial, so I guess that nobody else has written a specialized spell checker for Swedish. Generalized ones like ispell, aspell, hunspell and Word's do not work for Swedish. http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/stava/ http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/stava/