Abiword was very slow. Abiword is still completely unusable. I have not reported any bugs because anyone who has tried to use it should notice that it's unusable. By far the best way to write documents is to use Docbook or Latex with Emacs or maybe Lyx.
Word processors are for the stupid.
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