Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Sevior
Hi Gary, Nice screen shot! The toolbars look very easy to understand and easy use to me. Unfortunately I can't really give much of a critique because it's hard for me to think like a primary-school child now :-) Plus I've seen some kids absolutely fly through learning how to use a computer so

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Martin, On 18 Jul 2009, at 22:58, Martin Sevior wrote: We do not expose the underlying code to extract the numeric value of the word count from a document at present. It would trivial to add that to the API if

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Thanks Martin, On 19 Jul 2009, at 10:30, Martin Sevior wrote: Nice screen shot! The toolbars look very easy to understand and easy use to me. Unfortunately I can't really give much of a critique because it's hard for me to think like a primary-school child now :-) A fair and most valid

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Sevior
HI Gary, I'll put together a screen cast of the AbiWord linux build showing all the features Real Soon Now. If you have access to a windows machine you can just download our abiword-2.7.7 binary from: http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.7.7/Windows/abiword-setup-2.7.7.exe

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-18 Thread Martin Sevior
HI Christoph, We do not expose the underlying code to extract the numeric value of the word count from a document at present. It would trivial to add that to the API if there was consensus this would be a useful thing to do. Now is a good time to put in such requests because we're just finishing