thanks for sharing this. I will try this with a download of Softmaker Office from last year. back then they issued a free download for last year's (2008?) version. I liked it. lighter than open office, but unlike abiword, it was able to have proper german " " « » . 99 QUOTE 66 signs.. abiword (linux version) seems to be unable to behave typographicaly correct. but softmaker office did the job (when I used it on crunchbang linux)