Re: text tool for criawips

> (CC'ing Sven, hope he does'nt mind)
>
> On Friday 18 March 2005 19:33, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>>
>> There is also project called Criawips
>>
>> http://www.nongnu.org/criawips/
>>
>> that is working on a presentation program for gnome-office.
>>
>> Sven is working getting editting support going now. It might also be
>> possible use the same technique of connecting gtkmathview virtual canvas
>> to his drawing model that we use to draw maths in his program.
>>
>> I know Sven would appreciate all the help that offered to him.
>>
>
> Yes, I've checked out criawips too. From the archives, it does'nt seem
> like
> they are interested in reusing AbiWord. Does Sven plan on
> writing a text tool from scratch? Would'nt it be easier to pare down
> Abiword
> to suit criawips's needs? An ideal presentation text tool IMO needs to
> allow
> the insertion of tables, math, etc. that flows with the text, be able to
> check spellings, do BiDi, ...

I agree. Talk to Sven.

Cheers

Martin

>
>>
>> In a netshell it's easy to embed abiword in other apps.
>>
>> We have "abiwidget" which you can use if you link abiword and run it
>> in-process and an bonobo view for running out-of-process. You can embed
>> abiword in any gtk application. It's trvially easy if you use the bonobo
>> component.
>>
>> Anyway to try out the bonobo component just down download the sdk with
>> its
>> example code from our website at:
>>
>> http://www.abisource.com/developers/sdk/index.phtml
>>
>
> I just checked it out, it looks nifty!
>
>
> Shyjan
>
Received on Sat Mar 19 13:05:13 2005