From: Martin Sevior (msevior@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 10:57:42 EDT
On 20 Oct 2002, David Chart wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 15:17, Martin Sevior wrote:
> >
> > HI David,
> > I think you have a pretty reasonable set of requirements for a
> > professional writer. I think/hope that the feature set we'll provide for
> > abiword 2.0 will get us a foot in the door for users in your catagory.
> >
>
> I think so too. 1.0.x is already good enough for people writing for me.
>
> Specifics:
>
> > > There you go, easily quotable praise. Feel free to do so, as well. I'm
> > > actually using CVS HEAD, and keeping all my files in a local CVS
> > > repository just in case, and the automatic assert on opening a document
> > > is irritating. I thought Martin was going to remove that?
> >
> > Sorry. Will do.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> > > 3) Handling of RTF from non-standard applications is still a bit
> > > intolerant. I'm sure the RTF produced by Quark XPress is utterly
> > > horrible, but Abi refuses to open it. Since I get sent RTF from lots of
> > > different apps, I need something that will open everything.
> > >
> >
> > Could you please open bugs in bugzilla and attach offending documents?
> > I've found that we can get most docs to import reasonablally well with a
> > only a few minor tweaks.
> >
>
> Sorry, the documents are too confidential to post to bugzilla. I could
> send a zipped set to individual developers who want to work on it,
> though. (I'm the person who gets to decide who sees the documents.)
>
I'll keep them confidential if you'd like to send them to me. I've had a
bit of practice now at working around rtf abiguities.
> > > 3.5) Tables aren't quite good enough, but they're really close, so I'm
> > > sure this will be fixed very soon. (Thanks Martin!)
> > >
> >
> > Can you be a bit more specfic on what you need or is the current state of
> > bugs in tables (which I'm working through) just too bad to make them worth
> > while?
> >
>
> Just the bugs. As far as I can see, all the features are there.
> Actually, I have a document that doesn't import properly which I could
> post to bugzilla, so I'll do that now.
>
It would help if you could create some reproducible bugs for tables. It
helps to keep me focussed.
Cheers
Martin
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