Subject: Table support
From: James Ogley (james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 08:19:03 CST
Hi,
Long time listener, first time caller ;-)
I'm trying to prepare an article on Desktop Linux, and one app I want to
talk about is AbiWord, but there's a question I would like to clear up.
I know that Table Support is penciled for 1.2, and the reason for this
is that it's going to require a major rewrite of the display engine and
file specification, what I'd like to know is what were the reasons that
this functionality wasn't included from the outset, as the bugzilla
voting seems to suggest it's something a lot of people consider to be a
very important feature of a Word Processor?
I use Abi for about 90% of my WP requirements, and the table support
(along with corresponding improvements to the Word import filter) will
probably give it the remaining 10%, in the meantime, really looking
forward to 1.0 :)
James
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