AbiWord 2.0 - The next step. Dr. Martin Sevior Associate Professor School of Physics University Of Melbourne 3010 Victoria, Australia
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: +61-3-8344-5438 Bio: I'm 44 years old which definately puts me in the Older People of Gnome club. I'm Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. My field of research is Experimental Particle Physics. I started programming at age 18 on Z80 microprocessors, wrote my thesis in my own visual editor (to learn C) and starting hacking on AbiWord in 1999 to read all those MS Word docs Secretaries at my Uni were sending me. We have use Linux and Gnome extensively in Department and I actually use the program I hack on every day of my working life. It was with great joy that I learned my old college in Melbourne (Trinity College!) was using AbiWord to teach Word Processing skills. I was definately the first person at Trinity to have their own Personal Computer. I would appreciate help with travel. Particularly the cost of travelling from within Europe to GUADEC and the cost of local accomodation. Abstract: -------- The AbiWord team has spent the last year refactoring the code-base and making long term investments in the core of the application. At the same time we have added the most requested new Features. Tables, Footnotes, Endnotes, Anti-aliased Text, automatic font detection, Mail Merge and Revision Marks. The AbiWord team will continue to provide the Gnome desktop with a fully integrated, fast, feature-rich and exceptionally easy to use word processor - a core application of any modern desktop. The AbiWord bonobo control enables any Gnome application that needs to have document capability with an easy to use, embeddable word processor. The presentation will demonstrate the features of AbiWord as a stand-alone program, as a command-line driven application and how to embed it in any GNOME application.
