Subject: Re: Tables (How hard can it be) ?
From: Johan Stenfors (Johan.Stenfors@firstlinux.net)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 06:49:51 CDT
What is really the problem with tables ?
I mean for me it seam to be only a matter of tabbing the table items into their proper places, not entily unlike the way HTML handles this. Once the structure is conceived it is only a matter of user interface, which could be very rudimentary at first.
It the display rendered directly from the XML fileformat, or is there an internal format in AbiWord ?
--- Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 24 May 2000, Daniel Roberts wrote:
>
>> --- Decklin Foster <fosterd@hartwick.edu> wrote:
>> > One word: LaTeX.
>> >
>> > Word has been ``behind the times'' before it was
>> > even written. Help on
>> > AbiWord is definetly good, but if you have any stats
>> > papers in the
>> > meantime, think about learning LaTeX.
>>
>> That's all very well, but if I should be learning
>> LaTeX, then why bother writing AbiWord at all? Why
>> not give up on AbiWord altogether, and tell people to
>> use LaTeX instead?
>>
>> Also, learning LaTeX isn't going to give me something
>> to contribute to AbiWord. I want to contribute
>> something, and table support looks like something interesting.
>
>Latex is definately superiour to ANY commerical software when it comes to
>Mathematics and Statistics. MS Word isn't even close. It will be a very
>interesting challenge to get AbiWord into the League of Latex for maths
>support. I hope to so but there are many other issues to be solved first.
>
>Actually, now I think about it, the program you want is "lyx". See
>
>http://www.lyx.org/
>
>It has some good code but it is built on a weird and ugly widget set
>(Xforms) which has a strange license.
>
>Cheers
>
>Martin Sevior
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