Re: right-click to do calculations Non-member submission from [pod@sapienagents.net]]

[Stuart D. Gathman]

Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:

> > The hammer thing is a wrong metaphor from the beginning. Abiword
> > is not a caculator, [...] However small it is, it does not belong to wp.
> 
> The WP Microsoft Word supports calculating/evaluating expressions.

This kind of feature is best served by a "plugin" architecture. 
Gnumeric and Gaim are good examples.  Filtering selected text is a
rather simple API for a plugin.  A more complex API would required to
support, for instance, editing MathML.  But a simple filter API could
support transformations of MathML via a symbolic algebra plugin.

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