On 20 Jun 2001 12:30:48 +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> First of all - it's so much wonderful that Perl bindings are available
> and are even documented :) !
> Looking at the HOWTO, it seems they can be extended a bit.
>
> * it seems that there is no ability for printing of the document (using
> default settings at least)
> * There should be a way to insert a non-latin1 text into AW using bindings too
> (it may already be possible through the bindings and the latest Perl -
> dunno) - but I propose to add the following methods (very cheap to implement):
> writeUnicode( <unicode value here>)
> writeutf8("<utf8 string here>")
> After something like this will be available, everybody will be able to use
> perl bindings for adding data in their own language.
of course, but I would like to only have a write operation (your
writeUnicode). Unfortunatelly I don't know how to translate unicode
perl strings to the C/C++ world, but I will take a look.
comments in this stuff are welcome
> * To make bindings functionally complete, operations for getting range of
> current selection, retriving arbitrary range of text and
> extending/shrinking/begining/resetting selection should be available, and for
> at least only inserting images too.
> * Also it would be nice to have something for editing page setup (size,
> orientation, etc).
> * Finally a commandline option that after starting AW executes named script is
> necessary to provide full automation.
That's already there (abiword --script filename.pl)
All the other suggestions are very good ones, and I have them in the my
TODO lists, now :)
Thank you for your comments!
Cheers,
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Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela
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