Life & fun · September 4, 2026
Word42, a wordprocessor inspired by MS Word and Abiword
Word42 is a classic word processor, written from scratch in C on GTK 4, Pango and Cairo: inspired by classic Microsoft Word and by AbiWord, on a modern text stack. Free software, GPL-3.0-or-later.
Word42, a wordprocessor inspired by MS Word and Abiword launched on September 4, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,324 of 8,094 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Written from scratch in C on GTK 4, Pango and Cairo: a menu bar, two toolbars, a ruler, a status bar and a page. Inspired by classic Microsoft Word and AbiWord, on a modern text stack that handles Unicode, OpenType and complex scripts properly. New in 1.0.4: Word 97 .doc as the default format, WordPerfect files, Make It Fit and page numbers from any page. Coming in 1.0.5: LaTeX mode, for PDFs that look like a thesis. A working word processor, not a demo — everything below ships today. The user guide describes every command in the program; the status page and architecture notes tell the rest, and the changelog says what each release brought. An unsigned Word42.app from the releases page .…from word42.org
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