Subject: Re: I am impressed.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 19:42:43 CDT
HI Miguel,
Thanks very much. The main guys who did the gnome front end are
Joaquin Abela Cuena and
Dom Lachowicz
Both are extremely talented hackers.
We have a hack that will alow people who need to put a table in a document
in CVS now. It's not true Table Support ala MS Word but can you line
things up in columns and put lines where-ever you like amongst them.
We will try to get in true Table support by the end of the year in time
for the Gnome 2 release.
Right now we're tidying up loose ends for our 0.90 release (feature
complete for 1.0). This release will give a good indication of what Abi
1.0 will be like. It is tons faster, with lots more really cool features
and of course fewer bugs :-)
After 1.0 is out we will make proper Table support our first priority.
Cheers
Martin Sevior
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
> Hello guys,
>
> I have been using Abiword recently, as we have been shipping it in
> GNOME. It has been a while since I had used Abi, and the other day, I
> had the chance to actually use many of the features on it, and I was
> surprised to see how much it had advanced since the last year I used
> it.
>
> I want to thank the hackers that have been working on Abi for
> making such a great work, and specially, I have to say that the guys
> that have incorporated the Gnome support have done an outstanding
> job.
>
> I guess everyone has a wish item, and mine is tables, that is the
> only bit I miss from Word. I did some browsing of the web site, and I
> could not figure out whether work for this was underway or if it is
> still a major open task.
>
> Keep up the good work guys!
>
> Best wishes,
> Miguel.
>
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