Fwd: 3 Questions: Document Map, Zotero Bibliography, Custom Dictionaries

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From: Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: 3 Questions: Document Map, Zotero Bibliography, Custom Dictionaries
To: Arthur Machlas <arthur.machlas@gmail.com>

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Arthur Machlas
<arthur.machlas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings, I have three questions for the list:
>
> 1. Is there a document map plugin, ala MS Word? I have rather large
> documents formatted with Headings, subheadings, etc, and such a tool
> would be very useful for navigations purposes as well as to get an
> easy look at my document. If not, what about some kind of
> workaround... e.g., a table of contents on page 1 that I just hit
> ctrl+home to see, then click to navigate. Thoughts?
>

If you organise your document using numbered section styles you can
hide text between the headings using the text folding feature in the
"Bullets and Numbering" dialog. We do not have a documenty map
feature. It is a good idea that would not be that hard to implement.

If our GSoC student working on GUI features finishes his primary
project a document map would be a nice additional feature.

> 2. Zotero bibliography. Plugins are available for Word and OpenOffice,
> sadly none for abiword. I opened a bug-report (priority wishlist), but
> it can probably be closed/merged with another bug report at this
> point. There is a workaround, in that it can format rtf files for you,
> but you still have to manually create and insert references. So be
> it...
>

As far as I can tell Zotero is a propriety application. You would have
to ask them to write a plugin for abiword. Please contact them and let
them know how useful it would be to have an abiword plugin.

> 3. I'd like to have two custom dictionaries, and add words to the
> spell-check to those or main as needed. Is this possible in abiword?
>
> Many thanks for your time and comments
>

We handle dictionaries in a variety of formats through the use of the
enchant program. What is the format of your dictionaries? It is
possible to add words to AbiWord's list of words. Simply choose "add"
after right clicking on a mis-spelt word.

Cheers

Martin

> Arthur
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