What comes out of discussing with many people is the obvious need for an office suite under Linux, and this instills me with the idea of starting to work on KWord. The need for MS Office documents filters is urgent as well, of course.

I hope you'll keep working with the wvWare folks (http://www.wvWare.com) on Word translators. It would be great if all the Linux word processors could draw from a single source of translating talent.

• Re: Word translators for KOffice by Richard Bos on Tuesday 06/Feb/2001, @04:01

  I full agree with the submitter of this mailing. At work I'm using kde, but for the office part I must rely on other applications like staroffice or since recently xlhtml see http://www.xlhtml.org (have a look at this apllication it works quite well) The MS import filter are despearedly needed, and should be able to process/display pictures as well. To my opinion export filters to MS format are not important. One never know whether a native MS application crashes on a document created with non MS apps and it needs a lot of energy as well. It's better to distribute documents in ascii, pdf or html formatted docs.

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• export filters ARE necessary by Moritz Moeller-Herrmann on Tuesday 06/Feb/2001, @07:38

  At least where I work, kword needs an rtf or simple doc export to be viable. Some text format that supports FOOTNOTES (unlike html) and simple textformatting as well as tables to exchange a working draft of a document. Ohterwise I could work on a text here, but never give it to someone else to continue my work. (Unless they use kword, which I can't and won't force on anyone, to everyone his favorite tool)

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At least on the wvWare some cooperation is mentioned, but I don't know how far it goes.