A master carpenter would neither drive a finishing nail with a sledgehammer nor trim a tabletop with a chain saw. Such a craftsperson needs tools that are small, versatile and cheap. One such tool — for writers and anybody who needs to kick out anything from a short memo or letter to a full-length report — is AbiWord. This free, open source word processor is available for Windows, Macintosh and Unix computers of just about every variety.
