Re: long-awaited math in abiword coming?

From: Dave Malcolm (david@davemalcolm.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 06:42:36 EDT

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    On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 07:36, Luca Padovani wrote:
    > Dear AbiWord developers,
    >
    > at last I've found a student who's going to bonobo-ize gtkmathview, my
    > widget for MathML rendering/editing. Among the several advantages of
    > making a component out of the widget is the possibility of using it in
    > AbiWord for rendering math fragments. I had a discussion on this with
    > Martin a long time ago, but none of us ever had the time and resources
    > to invest on this, until now.

    This is great news, and of interest to me for Conglomerate, the free
    user-friendly XML editor I maintain.

    I'd like to discuss all the technical aspects, but I'm in the middle of
    a complete rewrite of my core rendering widget, so I'm a bit bogged down
    at the moment :-( So this mainly just a "hi" message to let you know
    that I'd be another potential user of this work.

    >
    > I've been collecting info on bonobo in the last few days, and have to
    > say the situation is rather confusing (to me). Most of the documentation
    > seems to be out-of-date, and there's no list of gtk widgets already
    > bonobo-ized that we could take as examples of "good practice". I found
    > ggv which seems to be very well done. Apart from that, it's not clear
    > how many of the several neat features of bonobo are really
    > implemented/implementable, and how many are just cool things written in
    > an HTML page. Now, given that bonobo support has been investigated in
    > AbiWord, I was wondering if you have any suggestions on how to proceed
    > so that the development would eventually converge into something that
    > can be effectively usable. What are the bonobo interfaces we are
    > supposed to implement? What is the most valuable source of information
    > for bonobo-related things that you have studied or at least taken into
    > account?
    >
    > I will contact shortly the guys on the gnome-components m.l. with
    > similar questions, I basically wanted to let you know that something is
    > happening.
    >
    > Yours,
    > -- luca

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    David Malcolm
    www.conglomerate.org
    


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