Subject: Re: AbiWord Lite (#2488)
From: Bryce Nesbitt (bryce@obviously.com)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 17:37:17 CST
Piotr Banski wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > Abiword is already small and light, and it may get
> > lighter as a lot of the newer features seem to living in plugin space, and
> > some stuff is being seperated out.
>
> This looks like a convincing argument to me, in that if most functionality
> goes into plugins, 'AbiLite' may simply be AbiWord sans plugins. And the
> marketing possibilities I was excited about would still exist: it could be
> stated explicitly that without plugins, Abi is like an extended *editor*,
> and it gains *word processing* capabilities when you add plugins. Cool.
>
> There is still this 'if' to be considered, but I recall that this is
> pretty much the direction in which Abi is going, isn't it.
>
> Thanks for the feedback,
>
> Piotr, getting ready to rest his case
A programmers editor needs some features that Abi does not have, mostly
relating to fixed width fonts & tabs. Set incoming tab width (e.g. 4),
set logical tab width (e.g. 3) set outgoing tab width (e.g. use spaces).
An email editor needs a few features also, mostly relating to quoting
of existing text (e.g. "paste as quotation") and plain text
("save as HTML & plain text", "warn about not plain text").
A proposal for AbiLite would shape itself easiest by defining the target
audiences. It might not end up all that "lite".
-Bryce
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