Actually that's a pretty good idea.  One of the things that is going to have 
to happen is people are going to have to learn yet another scripting 
language to create macros/etc., but if you can use a VBS clone, that will 
make the transition CONSIDERABLY easier.  But please remember to restrict 
the ever-living mess out of the VB clone to avoid macro virii.

Also, I haven't taken a look at all on how Abiword displays text, but what 
would need to take place to anti-alias the fonts?  I know this is probably 
beating a dead penguin, but I'm just curious where the anti-aliasing would 
need to take place. (Abiword, Gnome, X, etc...)

*going back to lurking now....*

>As long as you don't let them write to ~/.profile or something like that...
>
>Computing without a condom regards
>Juan
>
>Ash wrote:
>
> > I have been looking around for some cross platform visual basic clones, 
>to use
> > for macro scripting. I think this would be very handy for people 
>migrating from
> > word, and would also make opening word documents with macros much 
>easier.
> > I found one called script basic, that can be found here:
> > http://script.basic.hu/html/index.html.
> > There are quite a few others, and they can be found on freshmeat. Maybe 
>they
> > would be a good option for macros and scripting, as there a lot of
> > people(potential users) already familiar with VB syntax and usage.
> >
> > Ash.
><< jcastro.vcf >>

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