Re: ambitions of Abi-word

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:09 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 19:25 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> > > - will Abi support scripting in the nearby future? Can Abi use the
> > > things that will be developed by Gnumeric for this purpose? Do both
> > > projects collaborate on this issue?
> >
> > I forget what the current state of scripting is in Abiword but as far as I
> > can recally we haven't shared any infrastructure with Gnumeric in this
> > area (not yet anyway) although there is collaboration in other areas.
> >
> > What do you need the scripting for? Abiword provides other ways to
> > automate certian tasks so you may not even need scripting.
>
> I seem to remember there being a plugin that works with gnomedb that
> allows scripting between AbiWord and Gnumeric. I could be
> mis-remembering (it was something I read online somewhere, never used
> it).
>
> It apparently only worked in Gnome, though - so that a certain plugin
> could be built.

It's the GDA plugin, which allows you to insert data from databases for
example. Not sure if you can use it to mailmerge, but that should be
fairly trivial to implement.

Marc

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Received on Thu Nov 17 21:00:01 2005