Re: Stylist?

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> On 29/05/04 16:24:03, Mark Gilbert wrote:
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> > How where and why did we get a stylist in AbiWord? As far as I can
> > tell, that dialog is a list of styles, aka "style list". A stylist
> > is a formatting wizard/druid (ala mspub's wizards) or a flamboyant
> > hair dresser, not a list of styles.
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> Remember when you learned that the AWN was useful? So are the old
> ones!
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> http://www.abisource.com/information/news/2004/awn180.phtml#devlist01
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> I googled for "stylist abiword"
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> I remember reading that for the first time and thinking I got it wrong,
> but that's what Martin calls it.... It kind of works, etymologically
> speaking; "do up" your hair, "do up" your document.
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> Bad MG, baaad.

I think it's what OOo calls the thing.

When we announced the feature on gnomedesktop.org people seemed to know
what we were talking about.

BUT actually I just finished off the the code Dom started, so he can take
the credit for the name.

Cheers

Martin

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> -Eric
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Received on Sun May 30 02:27:37 2004