Message: 9
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:32:22 -0500
From: John Thacker <thacker(a)math.cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: fedora-devel-list Digest, Vol 12, Issue 104
To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:18:01PM +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> The AbiWord community is as vibrant as ever. We committed over 300,000
> LOC of changes to the code base over 14 months to produce AbiWord-2.2.
> We implemented all sorts of cool stuff that neither MS Word or OOo has.
> We implemented features that make the users job of creating documents
> easier and more fun. We want that code to be seen and used and
> appreciated by as many people as possible. We're in a position to be
> widely deployed across heterogenic communities like Universities and
> Schools since we have Windows, Mac and Linux clients.
I otherwise like the program, but it's an incredible PIA for me to use
because of its absolutely horrible CJK support. So I essentially never
use it, even though a few years ago Japanese support (on Linux) went from
"completely unavailable" to "laughably horrible." OOo has very
nice,
mature, professional CJK features.
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=cjk
Now I see that someone made it "not totally suck" on MacOSX recently,
so maybe there's hope yet for AbiWord.
Join in. Be part of the solution. As I said we're a grass roots
organisation that responds to real people with real problems.
We're VERY responsive to people with patches.
AbiWord takes less than 10 minutes to build from scratch on a modern
computer so the threshold for testing stuff is not high. Just testing
and telling us what works for CJK and what doesn't is really useful.
Cheers
Martin