I did try Abiword on easy-mer... and like you reported earlier it appears a bit flaky. With foreign-language docs, when I try to set the language it typically freezes Abiword -- if not induce a crash... I am not sure the language locale stuff in Ubuntu is set right. --denis
cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep en_GB leafpad /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local dpkg-reconfigure locales