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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
What a weird choice of software. Abiword is long-abandoned, very buggy, very primitive piece of software, which uses a proprietary pseudo-XML file format. There is a ton of better text editors today.
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I tried AbiWord a long time ago (back in the days of Windows XP) when I was searching for alternative word processors. I ended up giving it a pass for two reasons: (1) the documents are extremely large (related to the second reason), and (2) I checked the format and it seems like every paragraph begins with all of the formatting for that paragraph. Due to this, changing the formatting was slow because when you made a change it had to update every single paragraph in the document. While it might not be an issue with short documents like a letter, it becomes an issue when you have a document that is many pages long.