Hello all,
I am new here (of course)... I joined because I am a
beginning C++ student, and I'd like to see how I can
contribute, if I possibly can.
The impetus for this is that I like AbiWord a lot--I
think it is currently the most promising Linux (and
cross-platform) open source word processor we have
available on the market right now. However, at the
moment it has what I see as one *MAJOR* shortcoming.
I recently had to write a paper for one of my classes
(statistics), which required EXTENSIVE use of tables.
I ended up having to borrow my mom's Windows machine
and use Micorosft Word due to AbiWord's total lack of
table support... It was most embarassing, listening
to her giving me a lecture on how obviously "behind
the times" Linux was, and how she thought this was
evidence that Linux would obviously fail. I tried to
find evidence of future table support plans for
AbiWord... But to make matters worse, I can find
absolutely NO MENTION WHATSOEVER of future plans for
table support, ANYWHERE.
So, that's why I'm here--I want to find out if there
is any way I could help add table support. I think we
could start by adding "Tables" to the pulldown menus
and toolbars, and have it bring up a dialog about
incomplete features, the way the Preferences dialog
used to do.
>From there, does anybody have any ideas about this?
Any idea how difficult it might be? I've been
observing Mozilla almost since its birth 2 years ago,
and I notice that Netscape <=4.x used to support
tables by literally treating each table cell as a
complete nested HTML document of its own. Could we do
something like this in Abiword?
Feedback on any of this would be greatly appreciated.
I *LOVE* AbiWord otherwise... Up until now, I've
never found any serious deficiencies with it. This is
the FIRST one I've found.
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Sincerely,
Daniel
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