shane wrote: > On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodr�guez opened a hailing > frequency and transmitted: > > Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? > if i remember correctly this was asked, and the general feel seemed to be > "cause they haven't changed the package in so long it is damn near useless > now"
It's too bad people perceive it that way. AbiWord seems to be a fairly active development project especially considering the small number of developers and time available for each. They are currently concentrating on several "bugfix" releases prior to releasing 1.0, which will *not* have tables and some other features people desire. After releasing 1.0 they intend to embark on some extensive changes which may mean that post 1.0 releases are in a state of disarray for some time. However, I think the changes will be worth it -- they include tables, (IIUC) replacing the "rendering engine", and incorporating something like Pango to better support things like Unicode and internationalization. Some of the fairly recent changes which are in AbiWord now include styles (and templates) including a wide selection of bulleted and numbered list styles. Also, as you may know, AbiWord is crossplatform, working on Linux and Windows (and other systems), and using the same file format on each platform (XML). Also, it is "international" available in and handling many other languages and things like bidirectional text. Randy Kramer
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