From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 06:06:23 EDT
> OK I read the article. I can see we'll be beaten about the head for not
> providing tables. However we do provide a theasurus, whih Open Office
Thesaurus? but it is not on the plugins page!
http://abiword.com/download/plugins.phtml
Nor does there seem to be a build of the windows version
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518&release_id=88159
> doesn't. We can do spellchecking in 30 languages simultaneous, which Open
> Office doesn't. We have many usability edges over Open Office - like
> modeless dialogs.
>
> We are tons smaller than openoffice and we do run on XDarwin which open
> Office doesn't.
Small as Abiword is there is no easy way to download ALL OPTIONS,
all plugins, all dictionaries etc. for people with lots of bandwidth but
little patiences.
speaking of small i have taken the v1 from sourceforge and compressed
the binary (just abiword.exe) using UPX, and it is small enough to put on
a floppy disk.
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dev/abi/#floppy
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dev/abi/word/abiword.exe
> In addition with 1.0.2 we will have integration with evolution.
> which is very rapidly becoming the unix email client of choice.
> So big announcement of 1.0.1 now follow up in a couple of weeks with 1.0.2
> with evolution integration.
> Makes a nice 1 - 2 strategy.
>
> OK, I'm clearly a humble amauter on Marketing. Could Paul or Eric provide
> some advice?
From Eric's post saying "Tables are a top priority for version 1.2" is
much better than saying we dont do tables.
Could some one please hide the 0.99.5 files and any other pre 1.x files
from the sourceforge page
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518&release_id=88159
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