Re: commit: Start of Math support in HEAD + Math Plan for 2.4

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, J.M. Maurer wrote:

> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:30:30 +0100
> From: J.M. Maurer <j.m.maurer@student.utwente.nl>
> To: Charles Goodwin <charlie@vexi.org>
> Cc: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: commit: Start of Math support in HEAD + Math Plan for 2.4
>
>
> > Or create the API on an as-needs basis. Essentially that's almost what
> > is happening now anyway, just the API has lots of 'math' names rather
> > than more generic ones. It's a bit of an ad-hoc approach, but it's not
> > an unreasonable assumption that the Maths plug-in will not have
> > dissimilar needs of some (if not most) other embedded content plug-ins.
>
> If it works out well, I'll try to generalize it in the future when there
> is a need. Shouldn' t be too hard.

I've got some excessively optimistic notions of it being back and forward
compatible.

If a basic minimal API was implemented for say Abiword 2.6 and specified
that a space could be reserved for some kind of unknown embedded content,
it would mean there would be a better chance of Abiword 2.6 still being
able to do a basic rendering of whatever Abiword 3 or 4 documents might
be.

Sure it is ridiculously optimistic but maybe it might appeal to one of the
developers to set things up for the future put in some architecture that
will help avoid file format incompatiblity in the future.

- Alan
Received on Thu Jan 6 23:20:51 2005