Subject: Re: Paragraph symbol (and Amiga)
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 00:06:26 CDT
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 01:04:45AM +0100, Iain Hallam wrote:
> Works OK with Times New Roman out of the email with Abiword 7.10 on Windows
> 98. I thought that was a standard character anyway in quite a lot of
> things - it was certainly prevalent on the Amiga. Thinking of which, does
> anyone know how difficult it would be to port Abiword to one of the later
> Amiga Workbenches? They always had an X emulation layer built in to allow
> cross platform stuff, so it might be worth investigating whether it would be
> possible.
It would be about as difficult as a port to any other platform. Abi's
porting strategy tends to be porting the XAP application framework to
that platform. Unfortunately, currently most dialogs are
platform-specific which results in a LOT of work for porters. A fringe
port to a platform like AmigaOS would be likely to fall behind just as
the BeOS port has.
Aaron Lehmann
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