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Contents 1 About 2 Guides and Instructions 3 Internals 4 Tips, Tricks, and Other

About

• AbiWordDevelopment - Plans, brainstorming, big open issues
• Unit Test - Code unit testing framework
• Annotations - Implementation if annotations, part of Summer of Code 2007
• AbiCollab - Plugin to allow instant collaboration between users of AbiWord. What you type appears in their document as you type and vice versa.
• AbiWord SDK - Starting from version 2.6 it is possible to link in libabiword and use all of abiword's powerful document processing features in either GUI or server applications.
• PyAbiWord - Python bindings to AbiWidget
• AbiWidget - A Word Processing canvas that is a genuine GtkWidget and used as such
• PyAbiWordMethods - A list of the methods implemented for the Python bindings of AbiWidget
• AbiCommand - Command line interface into AbiWord. With this you can run Abiword in a server environment to do document processing. Very, very useful for sophisticated web servers.
• Windows Unicode Port - The remaining issues left to fix after having ported trunk to Unicode on Windows.

Guides and Instructions

• Getting the source code - How to use svn to get the source code
• Developing AbiWord on Windows using Visual C++ (Comprehensive) - How to download, compile, and improve AbiWord (development trunk) using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (Express Edition works!)
• Compiling AbiWord - How to compile AbiWord
• Compiling AbiWord on Maemo - How to compile AbiWord for Nokia Maemo plaform (N8x0)
• Compiling AbiWord on Mac - How to compile AbiWord on Mac, sort of
• Compiling AbiCollab on Linux/Unix - How to compile the AbiCollab plugin on Linux and Unix platforms
• Compiling AbiWord 2.6.x on Windows - Instructions using MinGW/MSYS and the 2.6.x and earlier "diving make" build system
• Compiling AbiWord 2.6.x Dependencies on Windows - How to compile some AbiWord dependencies on Windows using MinGW
• Debugging AbiWord - Some hints on how to use a debugger.
• New AbiWord Translation - How to translate AbiWord in a new language
• Update AbiWord Translation - How to update an existing translation of AbiWord
• AbiWord Debian Package Instructions - How Debian/Ubuntu packages (including our own Ubuntu PPA) are handled.

Internals

• Deprecated Containers - deprecated containers.

Tips, Tricks, and Other

• Useful Developer Tips - Things to make your life easier
• Good Commit Message Guidelines - Some unspoken rules, now spoken on the wiki
• Unlinked documentation - Find unlinked documentation