any good text formatting tools?
 

open office is cool, but it doesnt have a lot of fucntions such as grammer check, etc
staroffice is cooler, but it costs money...
crossover officew with MS word is cool, but i dun really like the way things work and some times it could be buggy and glitchy (i do like MS word though)
wine with MS word 2003 is a pain in the ass

so i was wondering if there are any writing useful tools. suggestions?

Actually I thought openoffice did have such things as spell check and grammar checking...


Try Abiword?

Try TEX :)

But I warn you that it is not WYSIWYG :)

what is WYSIWYG

and what version of open office has grammer check? ( i know it has spelling check, but not sure about grammer)

WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get :)

And OO does not have a grammer check :(

ah, yes. OpenOffice has spell check - not grammar check. Grammar check is what most people perfect in elementary school.

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WYSIWYG = dumb acronym =P

Well, FYI, grammer check is present in MSWord. So a lot of people expect to see it in OO ;)

im a writer by hobby and in all the time i spent in MS word the grammer check didnt help me very much and i can remember more times than not it would flag something just to tell me it might be a run-on sentance. it didnt reallly seem to serve much purpose if u ask me.

Somebody should add a grammar check for OpenOffice if it isn't there already...

http://development.openoffice.org/index.html#SOURCECODE

The above site may prove useful.

Now that's a line which could use some help! :)

Yeah, made me chuckle a bit, too. :P

For me, the grammer checker is often very poor. I tend to write in more complex sentence structures, having been trained as a lawyer. Although I no longer practice law, I still tend to write like an attorney. The grammer checker in M$ Werd (sp) hates me.