From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 12:19:12 EDT
> Hello!
>
> Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I have been using Abi Word for the past while, and I love it!
>
> I have it on my freeware page at;
> http://www.jungle.virtue.nu
For the developers the article (paragraph) is here
http://www.jungle.virtue.nu/office.html
I really like when web pages use the tag <a name="blah"> so that i can
link to the specific part of the page (i checked the source). I hope you
will consider adding these to your site (and maybe the LINK tag too).
> Please let me know if there are any upgrades, or new releases pending.
There is an abiword announce list you might subscribe to.
There are various plugins for abiword that you should take a look at
notabley including a Thesuarus (Aiksaurus).
http://www.abisource.com/download/plugins.phtml
A stripped down Abiword can be crammed on a floppy disk
I will explain how if you like. (I had vague notions that it could be
included prepacked on the downloads page but never followed up on it).
As some one who has tried various free offic suites perhaps you can make
some suggested improvements? If you are not already familiar with the
current plans of abiword and the exisiting requests you might want to take a quick
look at bugzilla (and maybe the top 10 bugs & features
http://www.abisource.com/information/news/2002/awn97.phtml as listed in
the Abiword Weekly News) or maybe just mail me your suggestions and i can
pass on the orignal ones.
You mention that TextShield has built in compression. So does abiword,
just save as Gzipped Abiword (.gz). Gzip give much better compression
that Zip for text files.
I hope you will take the time to use Abiword more and expand your
description to include more of its features.
Sincerley
Alan Horkan
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/
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