Re: XML Layout in .abw files

>
> "Vexi Reference.abw" 176L, 65382C
>
> 65 thousand columns?! I tried editting this in Vim. It was unusable
> (part a failing of vim because it sucks performance-wise with such wide
> documents) and the document uneditable because there was no way to get
> about such a wide document.
>
> But the part where I've found this to be a big pain is in diffs
> between .abw documents. I'm currently writing a large document [0] as
> part of a team, and we will be using darcs [1] to post patches and
> updates. But this is really difficult when .abw's are laid out as they
> are. Patches are obscenely large, and can rarely be independent of
> eachother because the content is kept on so few lines.
>

This is why we're developing the revision marks/merge documents code. When
it all works you will be able to everything in the GUI.

Cheers

Martin

PS. If you guys are all comfortable with vim/emacs why not use latex/docbook?

They're designed for this sort of large documentation project. (Well Latex
isn't but it scales far better than any WYSIWYG word processot.)

I'm not trying to put you off using AbiWord I'm just intrigued.
Received on Fri Aug 13 15:40:25 2004