#FOCUSWRITER VS WORD HOW TO#
#FOCUSWRITER VS WORD PROFESSIONAL#

i have it bundled with the following recoll package if you want to test: recoll1.13 and (thanks to muggins for the qtlib and most of what's in the folder).Įdit: here's the Qt bit on its lonesome: libQt3Support.so.4.pet, but i now see that at a minimum i must've also installed the contained 4mb qt4-4.3.2.pet (which i've now upped to my repo: qt4-4.3.2.pet). i don't have qt loaded on my unicorn spin or my precise spin, but i did add a qt lib when i added recoll, libQt3Support.so.4.pet. Abiword replacement contender?Ībiword replacement was what i was thinking as well, Bob. Wondering how big it might end up being with the minimal required Qt libs included.

No biggie - just thought I'd give it a quick look. it takes little time to get used to the interface, but i think you should have the option to leave the toolbars and menus visible/the existing method should be made more obvious.Ĭode: Select all focuswriter: error while loading shared libraries: libQtNetwork.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

the line spacing thing is odd but livable. overall, though, i think it's a decent alternative for those having bad luck with libre.Įdit: i was using the Session feature to change between Themes and save the test documents, but i don't think the results would have been any different had i just saved documents directly under two different themes set from within the same session. development on it appears to be active, but you're right, it does have some major weaknesses. stuck without libreoffice, i'd use focuswriter over abiword and live with the weirdness so i don't have to live with the crashes (the older version purported by some to be somewhat stable is the same version that crashed on me often enough that i'm put off by anything so branded). tabs are easily navigable with shortcut keys, but i don't see any way of similarly conjuring their appearance (ctrl+tab/0-9 and alt+ctrl+tab switch between the tabs on the lower bar with no visual fanfare or the option for any, somewhat strange given how much effort seems to have gone into giving users the ability to customize the interface).Īnyway, that's my review and how-to of this virtual typewriter/word processor.

#FOCUSWRITER VS WORD HOW TO#

you get to choose opacity level on something more or less irrelevant (the image on your virtual paper and the image on the surface on which it sits), but you need to load a new theme to change the font you'll be using and, apparently, the line spacing on-line (through an upload) or otherwise fuller word processors may also choose to not honor the font choice you made in focuswriter (i just checked in libreoffice5.1, and it gave two documents the same serif font despite one having been made with monospace and the other with sans), though direct copy-pasting should work the same as it appears to for just about everything else.Īs to missing the clutter and menus and tool bars-beyond hitting alt+f to access the file menu, i'm not sure how to toggle the top set visible. i tried copying the font from one theme into a document using another theme (font and spacing get changed/preserved with the theme-maybe the way to change the latter is there and i can't find the command?), and the active document converted rather than displayed it. the program appears to lock you into many of your choices, or at least makes it a bit more difficult than one would expect to change them.

Well, should you ever need it, it can do 'things like italics and centering text and horizontal rules and such.' bold and justification and things like indentation are fairly straight forward (and a desire for them doesn't strike me as particularly odd), but it seems line spacing requires you to pick single as the line spacing for your Theme (more or less your electric typewriter, complete with inconvenient-to-swap steel ball) if you also want the option to use double or triple. which means I'm still very persnickety about typefaces and having things like italics and centering text and horizontal rules and such. I'm only just starting to develop my literary side seriously, though.

#FOCUSWRITER VS WORD PROFESSIONAL#

before you ask, basically my mother is very literary (she has been both librarian and lawyer) and my father very, er, picture-oriented (he's a professional graphic artist) - so, thanks to genetics, I got a bunch of both. I need some of that supposed 'clutter' - font support, and formatting and layout stuff - because I'm both literary and visual.

Focuswriter vs word