Also we need to make sure that the sourceforge page is synced with the abiword.com and that a .i386.deb is realeased to debian. Especially the ability to make html links in a html dokument is very recommeded!
On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 22:29, robin wrote:
> Steve wrote: > > > > First off I wish to thank you for all your hard work developing a great > > product. > > I concur. I don't use Abiword very often, as I'm more of a LaTeX > person, but I'm impressed, and I find it useful when I need to read Word > documents and don't want to wait for OpenOffice to load up ;-) > > > One feature however which I find is lacking in a lot of > > open-source wordprocessors but is very much needed is a grammar checker. > > Being a writer, personally I consider this to be an invalueble feature > > for editing purposes. If possible could you please include a grammar > > checking in an upcoming version of Abiword. > > Please don't! > > Grammar checkers are at best irritating and at worst misleading. In the > days when I used MS Word, I would sometimes turn on the grammar checker > for amusement. Frequently it would mark sentences as ungrammatical which > I was convinced were perfectly normal English. Given that I have a > degree in English and an MA in linguistics, I'm fairly sure my knowledge > of grammar can hold its own in a fight against a grammar checker. > > Until we have genuine AI, grammar checkers will be unfeasible, for the > simple reason that computers cannot guess a writer's intentions. For > example, anyone reading this list will know that if I write (classic > example) "Time flies like an arrow", the sentence doesn't have the same > grammar as "Fruit flies like a banana". To a computer, they are > syntactically identical. > > More to the point, the philosophy of Abiword, as I understand it, is to > concentrate on the most necessary features and avoid bloat. Maybe when > Abiword has essential features like tables, we can think about producing > Abiword++ with grammar checkers, thesauri and the like. > > Robin > > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. >
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