... is out. Selected highlights since 0.7.1 include: 1. BeOS improvements. In response to all the demand for BeOS binaries, Thomas Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been zooming through the Be version, turning on much-requested features such as: - spell check - drawing optimizations to speed up selections - MIME support so files are double-clickable in the Tracker He's also been working on printing, but doesn't have a printer to test on, so YMMV. Be folks with access to printers are encouraged to help test this feature. Help from Be folks with printers who know how to use their compilers would be especially welcome. ;-) 2. Localization. The following translations have all been updated: French -- Philippe Duperron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> German -- Christian Terboven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finnish -- Jarmo Karvonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3. More platforms supported. AbiWord now builds and runs on Windows NT for the Alpha platform, thanks to Alan Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 4. Suffixes. When saving files, we now automatically add suffixes where needed so that it can be reopened using the appropriate format. 5. Spell check dictionaries. One of the so-called "features" of ispell is that its (binary) dictionaries can be built in numerous incompatible platform-specific ways. Our goal for this project is to have a single, portable dictionary format which can be used on all platforms. Thus, over the past few months, Darren Benham has been heroically modifying our copy of the ispell code to allow people to use the "wrong" dictionaries (ie, not one hand-built for their platform). For this release, we've temporarily backtracked and are releasing two platform-appropriate variants of the dictionary file -- one big-endian and the other little-endian. We'd eventually like a better fix, but for now it should Just Work. 6. Bug fixes and patches from a variety of contributors, including: cursor navigation, selections (6, 451) -- Richard Jefts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insertion point motion -- Matt Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FreeBSD 3.2 build glitches -- Ming-I Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrapper scripts (490) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. Unix-specific tweaks. The More Windows dialog scrolls when needed. The geometry command-line option works, too. Enjoy! Paul PS: One final note from the "Coming Soon" department. Dedicated Bonsai watchers will note that Caolan McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Justin Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> are collaborating on a refactoring of Caolan's mswordview code into a new library (libwv) which will replace the existing unwieldy Word97 importer. That work is going on in a new CVS module in our tree, but it's not (quite) yet usable in AbiWord. This is great news, and we'll keep you posted as things progress.
