Hej Knut

Knut S. Vikør wrote:
> Mariner Write didn't do Unicode or Arabic, so of no interest to me.
> I do get Mariner ads through some non-filtered spams, but not
> recently for Write, I think? But lack of Unicode would indicate
> they are not working terribly hard on it. AbiWord could be an
> open-source alternative, but again, not for me (Arabic support is
> intended, but doesn't work), and again there does not seem to be
> much development in that community.

Sure MarinerWrite does Unicode, but if you don't use Unicode fonts, you 
will get problems. The worsed lack in MW is the lack of handling both 
internal and external links, but as written to Geoff, I know they are 
working with a brand new and totally rewritten cocoa version.

> In this region of general word processors smaller than the
> Offices, bigger than Bean and iText, Nisus and Mellel seem to
> be it, as far as I can see.

Yes, both Bean and iText - especially iText Pro are doing really great 
work, though they are small. - And if you don't like the English GUI you 
can just switch to use the Danish - hopefully you can better read that 
now that I've spent so many hours trying to make the translations as 
good as possible and as understandable as possible for both Danes and 
Norwegians.:-)) - The iText people have also asked me to translate the 
LightwayText, but this app is still based on carbon and I don't have any 
good .rsrc translator, so I'm unable to do that. - I find the 
LightwayText one of the best texteditors alongside with BBEdit!

Cheers, Erik Richard

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