Subject: Re: Ted.
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 14:50:25 CDT
At 10:40 PM 5/3/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> I just tired Ted by throwing a quite complex table at it. It
>did a very good job of importing it. It got the pagination right when it
>was extended over a number of pages. It feels fast and responsive. It does
>reflow quickly. However while you can add rows and columns you can't
>delete them.
>
>I think we should have a close look at its source code. Ted is a nice
>little app but doesn't have many of the advanced features that make abi so
>cool. No multiple views/undo/redo or even toolbars.
>
>It has our bug 119 though :-) I think it might be useful mine for working
>code. It has far fewer bugs than kword.
Martin,
Thanks for the plug. Ted's layout engine is definitely worth a look. It's
been quite a while since I've last looked at it:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/May/0089.html
Anyone who hasn't seen it yet should take a peek. In addition, a couple of
other things that might be worth looking at include:
1. PostScript. Leonard will be happy to note that Ted's bookmark and
hyperlink capability emits the pdfmarks needed for distiller/etc.
2. Imaging. It looks like they use libjpeg et al directly. Is that a
potential source of ideas for our imaging API discussion? Likesise, how
featureful is their imaging support? For example, resizing images would be
nice -- especially if the implementations aren't too platform-specific.
3. Clipboard. It might be nice to interoperate with their PRIMARY RTF and
PNG copy/paste operations, but I don't know how feasible that'd be.
4. Locale packs. It also looks like they bundle dictionaries and messages
together. This is an idea we've discussed briefly, but made little headway
on:
http://www.abiword.org/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/March/0215.html
5. Dictionaries. As if pspell and ispell weren't enough, it looks like
he's created his own dictionary format.
>I love stealing GPL code :-)
I totally agree with this sentiment, but ... stealing? Who said anything
about stealing? We prefer the word "sharing", no? ;-)
Paul,
who loves to read good code
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