Re: AbiWord is Great

From: David Chart (linux@dchart.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 10:51:50 EDT

  • Next message: Martin Sevior: "Re: AbiWord is Great"

    On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 15:17, Martin Sevior wrote:
    >
    > HI David,
    > I think you have a pretty reasonable set of requirements for a
    > professional writer. I think/hope that the feature set we'll provide for
    > abiword 2.0 will get us a foot in the door for users in your catagory.
    >

    I think so too. 1.0.x is already good enough for people writing for me.

    Specifics:

    > > There you go, easily quotable praise. Feel free to do so, as well. I'm
    > > actually using CVS HEAD, and keeping all my files in a local CVS
    > > repository just in case, and the automatic assert on opening a document
    > > is irritating. I thought Martin was going to remove that?
    >
    > Sorry. Will do.

    Thanks.

    >
    > > 3) Handling of RTF from non-standard applications is still a bit
    > > intolerant. I'm sure the RTF produced by Quark XPress is utterly
    > > horrible, but Abi refuses to open it. Since I get sent RTF from lots of
    > > different apps, I need something that will open everything.
    > >
    >
    > Could you please open bugs in bugzilla and attach offending documents?
    > I've found that we can get most docs to import reasonablally well with a
    > only a few minor tweaks.
    >

    Sorry, the documents are too confidential to post to bugzilla. I could
    send a zipped set to individual developers who want to work on it,
    though. (I'm the person who gets to decide who sees the documents.)

    > > 3.5) Tables aren't quite good enough, but they're really close, so I'm
    > > sure this will be fixed very soon. (Thanks Martin!)
    > >
    >
    > Can you be a bit more specfic on what you need or is the current state of
    > bugs in tables (which I'm working through) just too bad to make them worth
    > while?
    >

    Just the bugs. As far as I can see, all the features are there.
    Actually, I have a document that doesn't import properly which I could
    post to bugzilla, so I'll do that now.

    Thanks for the response.
    David 

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David Chart
http://www.dchart.demon.co.uk/

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