Re: Speaking about AbiWord

From: James Ogley (james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 08:52:42 EDT

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    > Please talk about all the great features we've added or will be
    > adding over the next few months.
    > 9. Embeddable (in Evolution/Gnumeric) So the abiword in evolution reading
    > a word doc!

    I'll not demo this bit eh? :) (Bug #3561)

    > Show the auto-updating word count, the other modeless dialogs like
    > Insert Symbol and the Bullets and numbering dialog.

    Ooh, I'd not seen that word count thing - that's seriously cool :)

    (Man, I need to get out more...)

    > Show the bi-di support, the auto-updating fields (like time and Word
    > Count)

    Needed a reason to do a bi-di build for SuSE, and now I have it :)

    > Show Aiksaurus and AbiGimp plugins and mention all the other easy to write
    > plugins we already have...

    Will do...

    > Show the start up time of AbiWord and Open Office :-)

    Not sure I'll have time to wait for OO.o to start ;-)

    > Our next release will give us 99% of the features people use in a word
    > processors and a product that is much nicer to use than Open Office.

    Class, there's the killer line basically.

    > Open Office doesn't even have a Theasurus.

    rofl

    > Give them the message that we're building the Best Word Processor on the
    > Planet :-)

    They'll leave in no doubt that that's the case, and go straight to
    download it for themselves.

    J 

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