Re: Very short GUADEC overview

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> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Marc Maurer wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 20:45:24 +0200
>> From: Marc Maurer <j.m.maurer@student.utwente.nl>
>> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com, abiword-user@abisource.com
>> Subject: Very short GUADEC overview
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>> Hi All,
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>> Since some of you couldn't be at GUADEC, here is a very short overview
>> of what we did:
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> Thanks for the summary, as some one who missed GUADEC I appreciate it a
> lot.
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>> - We convinced Luca (the guy hacking on GtkMathView, a MathML rending
>> widget**), to seperate out the rendering part, removing hard the Gtk
>> dependency, and using AbiWord's graphics classes to render the math.
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> Sweet. I'd be happy to help with the testing of this if you can
> convince people to provide builds of the ABIMATH branch (builds for
> RedHat, Mandrake, but preferably windows).
>

I'm 99% sure you won't get binaries until after this is merged with the main
tree sometime after 2.2.

Martin

>> - I myself worked on bug 2365 when not attenting any talk.
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> (bug 2365: AbiWord needs 'view codes'
> i'd be interested to hear more, even being able to fire off an external
> (xml) editor like gvim/conglomerate and have abiword react to the changes
> could be very powerful)
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>> **) http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget/
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>> Expenditures on my part:
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>> 800 NOK for plane ticket
>> 60 NOK for a taxi for Martin and me
>> 320 NOK for pizza the 1st day for Martin and me (yes, that is expensive)
>> 800 NOK for dinner with Martin, Luca (MathView guy) and Daniel Glasseye
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> as far as i can remember his surname is Glassey and "glass eyes" is an
> amusing nickname because he wears glasses/spectacles.
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>> (or something like that, sorry :)
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>> Totaling 1980 NOK, which is about 247.5 EUR. Since I received 249 EUR
>> from the AbiFund, I must say my maths are still top notch.
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> That total is less than the price of the tickets I was looking at 3-4
> weeks before the conference, so it seems like money well spent to me.
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>> Thanks to all people donating to our AbiFund to make this possible.
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> You deserve it. Glad things went well.
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> Sincerly
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> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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Received on Sat Jul 3 05:36:58 2004