Description:

AbiWord is a cross-platform, Open Source Word Processor developed
by the people at AbiSource, Inc. and by developers from around the world.

It is a lean and fast full-featured word processor. It works on Most Unix
systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Features include:

* Basic character formatting (bold, underline, italics, etc.)
* Paragraph alignment
* Spell-check
* Import of MS Word and RTF documents
* Export to RTF, Text, HTML, and LaTeX formats
* Interactive rulers and tabs
* Styles
* Unlimited undo/redo
* Multiple column control
* Widow/orphan control
* Find/Replace
* Images
* Tables

More features are available through the use of plugins, which are
packaged separately. Also more import and export filters are
available by installing the abiword-plugin-impexp package.
Help files are available in a few languages which rae available as
for example abiword-doc-de.

Abiword with the GNOME front-end is part of the GNOME Office Suite.
See http://www.gnomeoffice.org for details.