At 10:40 PM 5/3/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote: > I just tired Ted by throwing a quite complex table at it. It >did a very good job of importing it. It got the pagination right when it >was extended over a number of pages. It feels fast and responsive. It does >reflow quickly. However while you can add rows and columns you can't >delete them. > >I think we should have a close look at its source code. Ted is a nice >little app but doesn't have many of the advanced features that make abi so >cool. No multiple views/undo/redo or even toolbars. > >It has our bug 119 though :-) I think it might be useful mine for working >code. It has far fewer bugs than kword. Martin, Thanks for the plug. Ted's layout engine is definitely worth a look. It's been quite a while since I've last looked at it: http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/May/0089.html Anyone who hasn't seen it yet should take a peek. In addition, a couple of other things that might be worth looking at include: 1. PostScript. Leonard will be happy to note that Ted's bookmark and hyperlink capability emits the pdfmarks needed for distiller/etc. 2. Imaging. It looks like they use libjpeg et al directly. Is that a potential source of ideas for our imaging API discussion? Likesise, how featureful is their imaging support? For example, resizing images would be nice -- especially if the implementations aren't too platform-specific. 3. Clipboard. It might be nice to interoperate with their PRIMARY RTF and PNG copy/paste operations, but I don't know how feasible that'd be. 4. Locale packs. It also looks like they bundle dictionaries and messages together. This is an idea we've discussed briefly, but made little headway on: http://www.abiword.org/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/March/0215.html 5. Dictionaries. As if pspell and ispell weren't enough, it looks like he's created his own dictionary format. >I love stealing GPL code :-) I totally agree with this sentiment, but ... stealing? Who said anything about stealing? We prefer the word "sharing", no? ;-) Paul, who loves to read good code
