From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 02:16:15 EDT
--- Martin Sevior
<msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >
>
>
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar
> wrote:
> >
> > We aim at robust inter-operability with existing
> > products, such as Microsoft Word®, Corel's
> > WordPerfect®, and others. Our goal is to
> incorporate
> > the most useful features of these competing
> > applications without the fluff, bloat, or slowness
> > that accompany them. The result is a lean and mean
> > word processor, the download size being less than
> 4
> > megabytes.
> >
> >
> > -- I don't like the word 'slowness'. Maybe
> > 'inefficiency'. 'fluff' also sounds a bit
> > derogatory and we're probably not fluff-free in
> the
> > eyes of many users either. And some fluff is
> > good fluff (:
> >
>
> I left in fluff and changed slowness to
> inefficiency.
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > The worldwide team of AbiWord volunteers is
> already
> > hard at work developing the next release of
> AbiWord,
> > which will include advanced features such as
> tables
> > and support for more complex languages. Users,
> > writers, translators, testers, and developers are
> all
> > encouraged to try out AbiWord and see what they'd
> like
> > to add next.
> >
> > -- This is the perfect place to advertise for
> > international developers. I can't emphasize
> enough
> > how badly we are going to need especially Indian
> > and/or Southeast Asian developers. The same goes
> for
> > translators.
>
> I put a request for Korean, Arabic and South Asian
> developers and
> Translators.
I'm a bit concerned about "Arabic developers". The
"Arabic script" is also used by tens of millions of
non Arabs, especially in Iran and Pakistan and
their versions of the script actually require a bit
more expertise than plain old Arabic so their input
would be more valuable.
That said, I'm not quite sure what an accurate and
politically correct wording would be without sounding
overly jargonistic - any ideas?
> > -- I would also personally make the fact that
> tables
> > aren't here yet more prominent. Closer to the
> top.
> > We should defuse this expectation before people
> get
> > their hopes up. We probably should say something
> to
> > the effect of 'it does almost everything except
> > tables,
> > which is the #1 priority for the next version'.
> > But we also don't want to make it sound like that
> > version is a couple of weeks away...
> >
>
> I decided to leave it as is. Introducing that
> earlier negates some of the
> positive vibes we engenger.
Well that's what we do now. We give them positive
vibes - and then we negate them. I'd prefer not to
make them expect too much early on is all.
Since many people feel the lack of tables make AbiWord
unusable or a toy I think we should do this. for
almost any other missing feature I'd do just as you've
done now.
Andrew Dunbar.
> > Get AbiWord Now
> >
> >
> >
> > AbiWord is available for Linux and other Unix
> > variants, Windows, MacOSX and QNX and is
> completely
> > free. You can learn more about AbiWord from our
> > website at http://www.abiword.com/.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- It's not *really* available for OSX. We should
> > say something more to the effect of "a version
> that
> > can run on OSX" since it's not a native port. We
> > should also state that the native port is in the
> > works.
> >
>
> I changed to "runs natively on Linux, Win and QNX".
> And with a version
> that runs on MacOSX.
>
> > inc.
> > ® WordPerfect is a registered Traemark of Corel
> inc.
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> Fixed!
>
> OK? Other typos/suggestions?
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
> PS. Still waiting for the webteam to wake up :-)
>
>
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