The following color-coded matrix describes the current extent of support for various features in AbiWord. There's an explanation of the text in each cell at the bottom of this document.

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 This feature is done.
 This feature is not planned for 1.0. If you send us code, you will change our minds.
 This feature is partially done, but needs work
 This feature is done, but is too bug-ridden to be usable
 This feature is not implemented
 Unknown, because bob@abisource.com hasn't "officially" tested it yet.
 Not applicable

To tell if a particular feature is complete across the entire product, look across that row. Likewise, to tell if a particular portion of the product is completely up to date, look down that column.

C PROPS

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
color yes yesn/a v2.0 i,e i,e i e n/a no
font-family yes yes (1) yes i,e i,e i e n/a no
font-style yes yesyes yes i,e i,e i e n/a e
font-weight yes yesyes yes i,e i,e i e n/a e
font-size yes yes (1) yes i,e i,e i e n/a e
text-decoration yes yesyes yes i,e i,e i e n/a (2)
text-position yes yesyes yes i,e i,e i e n/a e
font-variant v2.0v2.0v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 n/a v2.0
font-stretch v2.0v2.0v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 n/a v2.0
  1. Waiting for the creation of a well-defined focus model to allow keyboard traversal of toolbar combo boxes.
  2. Underline works in LaTeX, but strikeout doesn't.

P PROPS

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
text-align yes (1) yes yes i,e i,e i e n/a (8)
line-height yes yes yes yes i,e (2) i n/a n/a e
orphans yes yes n/a n/a i,e e omly no n/a n/ano
widows yes yes n/a n/a i,e e only no n/a n/ano
keep-together #653 yes n/a n/a i,e (5) i n/a n/ano
keep-with-next no (4) n/a n/a (7) (7) (7) n/a n/ano
margin-top yes yes n/a yes i,e i,e i n/a n/ano
margin-left yes yes n/a yes i,e #590 i n/a n/ano
margin-right yes yes n/a yes i,e #590 i n/a n/ano
margin-bottom yes yes n/a n/a i,e i,e i n/a n/ano
text-indent yes yes n/a yes i,e #590 i n/a n/ano
tabstops (3) no n/a yes (3) (3) no n/a n/ano
default-tab-interval yes no n/a n/a i,e (6) (6) n/a n/ano
background-color v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 n/av2.0

  1. Paragraph dialog still doesn't have tri-state drop-downs
  2. RTF import of line spacing works, but tool bar controls don't recognize the spacing.
  3. Only left align tabs are supported
  4. The option is in the paragraph dialog, but it doesn't do anything.
  5. Does RTF even support this? Perhaps this should be n/a instead?
  6. Word changes tab stop on a document level, not paragraph level, so it is unclear this can be supported
  7. This can't be effectively tested until AbiWord actually supports it in the view
  8. Right-align and center work. Left-align and full produce no TeX command, and the result is full.

Section PROPS

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
columns yes no n/a yes i,e i,e i n/a n/a e
column-gap yes no n/a yes i,e no i n/a n/a (2)
section-space-after use no n/a n/a i,e (1) (1) n/a n/a (3)
page-margin-top use no n/a no i,e no i no n/a no
page-margin-left use no n/a no i,e no i no n/a no
page-margin-right use no n/a no i,e no i no n/a
page-margin-bottom use no n/a no i,e no i no n/a no

  1. RTF and Word do not support this attribute as far as I can tell.
  2. Column gap produces a mishmash of overstrike. So does column break.
  3. Section space produces one column followed by two columns, as it should, but there is no 3-line space.

Breaks

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
br (Line break) yes n/a(2)n/a i,ei,e i #629 e e
cbr (Column break) yes yes(2)n/a i,ee only i n/a n/a (3)
pbr (Page break) ues yes(2)n/a i,ei,e i n/a n/a e
Section (Section break) (1) (1)(2)n/a i,ei,e i n/a n/a e

  1. Odd/even page breaks not implemented yet
  2. Needs documentation
  3. Column break produces a mishmash of overstrike.

Image

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
image PNG onlyyesn/a n/a i,ee onlyno#564 n/a no
image dataid PNG onlyyesn/a n/a i,ee onlyno#564 n/a  
height (1) no n/a n/a i,eno no#564 n/a no
width (1) no n/a n/a i,eno no#564 n/a no

  1. Interactive editing of image height and width is not planeed for version 1.0

Data

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
data PNG onlyyesn/a?n/a i,ee onlyno#564 n/a no
d name PNG onlyyesn/a?n/a i,ee onlyno#564 n/a no

Styles

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
style yes no (3) (1) i,e (2) (2) e n/a  
p style= yes no n/a (1) i,e (2) (2) e n/a e
s name= yes no n/a (1) i,e (2) (2) e n/a  
s props= yes oo n/a (1) i,e #590 (2) #461 n/a  
s basedon= yes no n/a (1) i,e   (2) #461 n/a  
s followedby= v2.0v2.0v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 v2.0 n/a  

  1. Custom styles are not listed in toolbar yet.
  2. Style information is collapsed into explicit properties, instead of defining and referencing the underlying styles.
  3. Waiting for the creation of a well-defined focus model to allow keyboard traversal of toolbar combo boxes.

Field

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
field (1)i,eno n/a i,e#635#634no#636 (2)

  1. More field types need to be spec-ed and implemented.
  2. The fields exported blank, even though they had text in them.

Other features

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
(headers) use no no no i,e no no n/a n/a no
(footers) use no mo no i,e no no n/a n/a no
(lists) no no no no no no (1) no   
(tables) v2.0v2.0v2.0v2.0v2.0 (2) (1)v2.0n/a v2.0

  1. The Word import engine can handle lists and tables, but AbiWord doesn't know what to do with them.
  2. We might wish to convert table boundaries to tab stops as interim solution

CHARACTER SETS

ViewDialogKeyboardToolbarAbiWordRTFdochtmtxtLaTeX
Latin-1 yes n/a yes n/a yes     e
Latin Extended yes n/a yes n/a yes     no
Greek yes n/a yes n/a yes     no
Cyrillic yes n/a yes n/a yes     no
Hebrew   n/a   n/a      no
Arabic   n/a   n/a      no
Nagari   n/a   n/a      no
Thai   n/a   n/a      no
Hàn Zì   n/a   n/a      no
Kana   n/a   n/a      no
Hangul   n/a   n/a      no
Accented width same   n/a   n/a      e

Explanation of language

Last edited September 4, 2000
LaTeX tested by Pierre Abbat on code downloaded August 24, 2000, from CVS