On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Paul Rohr wrote:
> 3. Interactive spell-checking (kind of) works. If you have an ispell
> american.hash dictionary in the usual place (/usr/lib/ispell/ on Linux, or
> the app directory on Win32), you'll get red squiggles as you type. Still
> needs a bunch of work though.
I hope this is optional, it's one of the features I could never stand in
MS Word 98. Lets not become another Microsoft Word. My teacher hands out
papers with incorrect capitalization (e.g. the first word on every line in
a list of words..), and she says "Blame it on Bill Gates". There are
plenty of things that AbiWord needs before bloat. Off hand, I can think of
mail merge, advanced formatting, print previewing, grammer checking,
stationary, and macros. Those are all more important to me than
interactive spell checking, which i find annoying and unhelpful.
> 4. Far more drawing and formatting work than I could possibly describe. In
> particular, bug 7 is *gone*, so you should no longer see any character-level
> drawing dirt.
>
> 5. Import/export of AbiWord files should now be UTF8-safe. See
> src/wp/samples/latin1.abw for an example.
>
> 6. Added trivial exporters for plain text and HTML. Trivial fixes for the
> brain-dead Word97 importer to keep it on life support until Justin and
> Caolan can supply a real replacement.
>
> 7. Lots of tree reshuffling and tidying to help prepare for a MacOS port.
> Various housecleaning tasks include:
>
> - changed to proper ANSI/POSIX headers,
> - removed C++ streams,
> - renamed last vestiges of old DG_* prefixes,
> - removed UT_DLList,
> - added clean and realclean targets to top level makefile,
> - turned off a bunch of old debug messages,
> - no filenames longer than 31 characters, and
> - moved more platform-specific logic out of XP files.
>
> 8. As always, many bugs were squashed with violent force.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Paul
>