Subject: Re: Development of Abiword for MacOS X ?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 17:14:42 CST
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Julian Morrison wrote:
>
> However, the text-editor component built into OsX already has 99% of a word
> processor's features right out of the box, so porting Abi Word is probably
> pointless; a kid could assemble nearly equivalent functionality with a
> couple hours and a copy of the interface-builder app.
>
But would it import/export abiword/WORD/Latex/RTF/docbook (and later SVD
and MATHML, excel files, gnumeric files etc etc)?
A Word Processor has to talk to the world not just itself.
Cheers
Martin Sevior
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