Subject: Numbered headings is the Showstopper!
From: ArcadePreserv Center (arcadepreserv@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 16:09:28 CDT
I hope everyone thinking of starting to implement a new feature understands
this.
Abiword is great for writing letters. I dont think anything is missing
there. Next step would be to use Abiword for schoolwork or reports in
univerity or at work. Every such report need the automatic line numbering
support.
The rest can wait. IMHO
>From: "Eric W. Sink" <eric@sourcegear.com>
>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: AbiWord 0.7.9
>Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:17:51 -0500
>
>... is out.
>
>It's been a while since the 0.7.8 release. With all of the new
>features and bug fixes in 0.7.9, this summary is a long note. This
>release also saw quite an expansion of our CREDITS file, as 13 new
>contributors joined the effort. There is much to highlight in this
>release, so we apologize up front if we didn't mention everyone.
>
>Selected highlights since 0.7.8 include:
>
>1. Insert Symbol. AbiWord now allows you to add symbols via a nifty
>Insert Symbol dialog. Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
>needed to be able to use all those goofy Greek symbols that represent
>particle names such as anti-protons and neutrinos, so he added the dialog
>and all of the infrastructure to make it work. This was a real team effort
>to get the dialog refined and cross-platform. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca
>Abela and Bruce Pearson.
>
>2. Word count dialog. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (who goes by Sam Th) added
>a Word count dialog. He must have gotten tired of being assigned a
>1,000 word essay, and submitting one with 1,100. Why write an extra
>100 words when you can code a feature to make sure you don't have to
>anymore? :-)
>
>3. Insert Field. Henrik Berg added an Insert Field dialog. This
>feature is currently not fully enabled, due to pending changes in the
>underlying fields implementation.
>
>4. Two major bug fixes. The first was the infamous libpng bug.
>Everyone who grabbed the latest Red Hat 6.2 distribution couldn't run
>AbiWord. This was due to the way we were accessing the new PNG
>library. Justin Bradford and Sam Th got tired of answering emails on
>the subject, so they fixed it. The second was #522, where font size
>popups would activate when you hit the space bar. Shaw figured out
>the problem was due to some improper handing of modifier keys such as
>NumLock.
>
>5. Overwrite mode. Alexey Sinutin added the ability to run AbiWord
>in overwrite mode. Now the Insert key will toggle overwrite mode,
>replacing characters as you type instead of always inserting them.
>
>6. Page Margins. Bruce Pearson added the ability to set right and left
>page margins from the ruler.
>
>7. Lots of Gnome dialogs. Gnome version of the Font chooser,
>Paragraph, About and Option dialog came courtesy of John Tunison. We
>didn't quite get all of our ducks in a row here for the build farm
>here at SourceGear, so there are no Gnome binaries for 0.7.9.
>However, they *will* be available in the next release, which will come
>much sooner than this last one.
>
>8. Mac port beginning. Bryan Prusha makes his AbiWord debut by getting
>the Macintosh version of AbiWord compiling. It doesn't actually *do*
>anything yet, but it compiles. Thanks to Bryan, it's now time for all
>Macintosh developers who like GUI work to knock themselves out.
>
>9. Various other bug fixes. Double click selection fix #10 (Sam Th),
>Ruler and Undo instantiation fix #302 (Aaron Lehmann), Toolbar button
>size when text only #352 (Henrik Berg) Cursor size on font size
>boundaries #432 (Martin Sevior), Printing on 2nd page #637 (Andy
>Richardson), Opening empty files #651 (Matt Kraai), Mouse Wheel scroll
>lines support #770, (Matthew Allen), Cursor motion fix #776 (Martin
>Sevior), better error handling on tar extraction #782 (Danny Faught)
>LaTeX export fixes #788 and #789 (Joaquín Cuenca Abela), ANSI C
>cleanup #811 (Sam Th), underline/superscript fix (Martin Sevior), View
>Ruler consistency (Kevin Vajk), RTF CR/LF handing (Harald Fernengel)
>
>10. AbiWord for QNX. Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com) has done a
>tremendous amount of work to get AbiWord nearly fully functional on
>QNX. As a measure of his success, AbiWord may soon be shipping as
>part of the QNX Neutrino RTOS and the Photon microGUI windowing
>system. Note that we are not yet providing binaries for QNX.
>
>11. Command line conversions. AbiWord can now be used in batch mode to
>convert files from one format to another. Joaquín Cuenca Abela added all
>the options. To get a complete list, type AbiWord -help from a command
>prompt.
>
>12. Update to expat 1.1. You would have though Sam Th had already gone
>above and beyond, but he somehow found time to update our XML parser to
>version 1.1. This paves the way for better XML support.
>
>13. Translation updates. Typically translators fall behind current
>releases due to the large number of strings which are constantly
>added. Owen Stenseth took the high road and decided to rectify this
>problem by providing a script which surveys the code base, and prints
>out a table of translations, and how complete they are. This led to a
>flurry of updates including Swedish (Henrik Berg), Italian (Marco
>Innocenti), Finnish (Jarmo Karvonen), Indonesian (Tim Allen), Danish
>(Birger Langkjer), Portuguese (Rui Silva and Giovanni dos Reis Nunes),
>Hungarian (Tamas Decsi), and Polish (Eutanazy Sercxemulo) [but it
>doesn't appear that this Polish translation got checked into the tree
>-- oops, we'll take care of it].
>
>14. More ports. drk@sgi.com sent us a patch to get AbiWord building on
>SGI IRIX 6.x. For an even stranger platform, AbiWord can now build the GTK
>version on Win32 via gcc and cygwin, courtesy of Tom Newton. If that
>weren't enough, a NetBSD configuration was provided by Johnny C. Lam
>
>For those who want a brief look at what is coming, there are some really
>cool patches just over the horizon. Christopher Charon has written a great
>help system, James Montgomerie has started the Word export feature and a
>patch arrived for Bidirectional support from Tomas Frydrych. All this and
>more coming soon.
>
>--
>Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
>SourceGear Corporation
>eric@sourcegear.com
>
>
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