References and Definitions

Last updated: 031026:1819USCT by EAZen

Introduction

This is the official, or atleast only, RefDef page for AbiSource, or atleast the AWN. The purpose of this page is to act as an alphabeticly-organised, index-style glossary page, explaining commonly used, or atleast used, terms/people/events or whatever else comes to mind. The most well known example would be the ever massive Jargon File maintained by Eric Raymond. Please note that this is pretty much a living document that could be updated the moment someone asks, “What's a $referenced-item?”

To give you an idea of how to use the refdef page, I'm going to give you an example. Let's say you wanted to know what refdef meant. Right now, working in this example, you just need to add #refdef to the end of the url in your browser. The design of the page is to make it possible to seek out single word terms that brought you here in the first place. Try it!

refdef
1: References and Definitions ( AWN and RefDef ):
A page containing an alphabeticly-organised, index-styled glossary in relation to a specific subject.

References and Definitions

abi
1: Abi ( AWN (current) ):
An abbreviation for Abiword.
2: Abi the ant ( Abi's home page ):
An older mascot of Abiword, a blue ant named Abi.

abi*
1: Abi* ( refdef ):
Terms that have undergone Abification:

Age; AbiAge ( AWN#167:discussions,developers ) Current version of AbiWord in support and development.
-fication, -fied; Abification, Abified ( refdef ) Placing “Abi” before another word to suggest a specific relation to AbiWord.
Relative, Relatives; AbiRelatives, Abirelative ( AWN (current) ) Other projects that depend on, are depended on by, work with or are grouped with Abiword. Examples: AbiConvert, LibWPD, Gnumeric and Conglomerate
Developer, Dev; AbiDeveloper(s), AbiDev(s) ( AWN (current) ) People involved with the development of AbiWord.
User; AbiUser(s) ( AWN (current) ) People who use AbiWord
Hacker; AbiHacker(s) ( AWN (current) ) People involved with the development of AbiWord.
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abification
1: Abification ( refdef ):
Placing “Abi” before another word to suggest a specific relation to AbiWord. Related term: Abified, See also Abi* for lists.

editor
1: Editor ( AWN (current) ):
The writer of the Abiword Weekly News, i.e. the person who adds the fictional parts.
2: editor, text/document
An application for creating and altering documents.
3: editor versions ( AWN (current) ):
An unofficial tag for a future version an editor creates, usually for his or her amusement.

AbiWord II: The Wrath of Dom; ( AWN#103:cvs ) Based on a comment made by Marc Maurer and inspired by the Star Trek movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, this version was un-intentionally prenamed for the first release of the 2.0 series, 2.0.0.
AbiWord 2.2: Woven Acid Trip; ( AWN#155:discussions:developers ) Inspired by AbiWord II: The Wrath of Dom background this came from an abstraction of a name that was twisted out of the scene in the referred to Star Trek film where Chekov realises the significance of the abandoned vessle they have found. It is even more twisted by inspiration of the source of the name Criawips.

neato
1: NEATO or ^NEATO ( AWN ):
Non-Existant Associated Trademark Obligation, a common legal-joke, similar to adding the trademark symbol (™) after commonly used phrases. In specific, it appears before words that have undergone “Abification,” most typically, features. This also suggests that they are neato or nifty or cool. NEATO originally developed from NEATM.

tinderbox
1: Tinderbox(en) ( Latest Releases:cvs snapshot builds, AWN#167:discussions,developers ):
Tinderbox referes to a specific type of software designed to grab and compile the latest CVS sources. This definition is an intentionally narrow over-simplification for regular users. See site http://www.mozilla.org/tinderbox.html and alternatively http://www.johnkeiser.com/mozilla/tbox3.html

wysiwyg
1: WYSIWYG ( AWN ):
What You See Is What You Get, the intended design of most wordprocessors, like Abiword, describing the intention that what you see in the application on the screen is what you get when you print the document onto paper.

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Changes

031026:2332USCT
For the likes of me, I really thought news.abisource.com was implemented by now. $20 has informed that it has not. I suppose I take idle chatter way too seriously.

031026:1819USCT
Hey, it's just here for further development. You'll notice there are unused bits to make it easier to expand. Generic AWN pointers will be fixed to the latest occurrence...when they occur.