FinalWriter bounty?

[Iggy]

Ugh, you guys are too focused  on the past.
 
That's why I'm siding with Fraggle on MorphZone.
 
A clean approach and a new product.
Why would you want to use something this old?
 
BTW - It still runs under MorphOS if you're into pain.
Me, myself - I just use Goggle Docs.

[Iggy]

I can't get google docs to cooperate with loading an odt file from my computer. Any suggestions?

Wow! That's still a problem?
The first time I heard the complaint was about three years ago when they screwed up that capability (it had worked prior to that).
Personally, I do a lot of work with PDFs and they upload fine.
 
I'll take a look into it.
They should have had this one solved a while ago.

[Iggy]

So we're down to
 
a)support a new program...or
 
b)update or port something thats either going to be costly or time consuming (which inthat case,OO has my support).
 
basically we've reached the same point that the guys on MorphZone did

[Iggy]

Funny quote considering this is an Amiga forum. ;-)
 
I'd say, it depends on whether or not it works well.
If it works well and we only need to tweak file formats, then it should still be fine, even tho it's "this old."
 
desiv

Not a bad point.
 
But to the best of my knowledge, we were discussing software for NG machines.
 
But, since word processing doesn't require that much horsepower, I don't see why these same packages couldn't run under AOS3.X or AROS68K.

[Iggy]

There's already Claus Desler's Cinnamon Writer. The project started life on OS4 but there is already an AROS build, not sure about MorphOS yet but the intention is to have it working on all 3. Any money might be better spent supporting that initiative.
 
http://desler.be/modules/wfchannel/

Yeah, Claus is working on the port right now.
And Fraggle has commited to buying Claus a Mac Mini to run MorphOS on.
 
So hopefully, one day, we'll have a word processor that works across all the NG OS'.

[Iggy]

And I've always been a fan of native code for native OS/hardware for speed and simplicity...desiv

Which is why I'm back to Cinnamon Writer. Yeah, it starts out on OS4, but the other two NG OS' its moving to also support the OS3.1 API.
 
Very native (and a lot less work then Open Office).