Re[2]: Converting .abw files to .pdf

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Alan G Isaac wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:06:56 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
> From: Alan G Isaac <aisaac@american.edu>
> To: Abiword is Awesome <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re[2]: Converting .abw files to .pdf
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Alan Horkan apparently wrote:
> > abiword --to=latex document.abw
>
> Adding this example at
> http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/azindex.html#L
> would be nice.

Please do submit a patch to improve the documentation if you can.
If you cannot create a patch please create a bug report and provide
exactly what you think should be added and one of the developers will try
to add it for you.

> > Now I need to see about improving the LaTeX export to support more
> > features. The LaTeX exporter does not yet support, Tables, footnotes,
> > endnotes, Table of Contents, Textbox Word wrap, or positioned objects.
>
> I hope that Math gets some emphasis as well.

I'm not much of a programmer and I like my documents fairly basic and
although I am interested in making some improvements to the LaTeX export
they are likely to be very small and so please dont expect any massive
improvements in the LaTeX export to come from me.

> What is the status of integrating GtkMathView?

It is being worked on in a seperate branch. If all goes to plan I believe
Martin hopes to have it included in what will become Abiword 2.4.

> Being able to produce text plus math as XML/MathML
> and export to LaTeX would be in no uncertain terms awesome.

When abiword gets support for adding mathematics adding the ability to
export it as LaTeX is a whole other question.

> There have been some suggestions that this is in place NOW:
> http://gnomedesktop.org/node/1865
> Can ordinary users on Windows use this functionality
> somehow? If so, how?

Ordinary users on any platform will have to wait until _at least_ Abiword
2.4 and users might need to wait even longer as this functionality, I'm
not really sure.

- Alan H

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Received on Tue Dec 14 23:21:46 2004