From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Sun Jan 11 2004 - 16:51:59 EST
> Helo Martin,
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> This questions is directed particularly at Jordi Mas but other
>> people please chime in.
>> Jordi has reported that earlier "STABLE" AbiWord releases had bugs that
>> prevented Abiword from being used with Footnotes and Endnotes. Jordi
>> makes
>> extensive use of these so he put AbiWord through a more stenuous set of
>> testing than I did.
>> My question is: Does Abiword now pass the Jordi test? Is the
>> endnote/footnote support now reliable enough for you to use it
>> regularly?
>
> I have extensively tested endnotes and they now work perfect for me. I
> have
> not used footnotes so hardly yet. Thanks for all the work that you have
> done
> in this area.
>
Thanks Jordi. This is great news. I suspect that footnotes are now fine too.
> The only thing for me left to fix is bug 6248. It's really something that
> we
> should fix.
>
Thanks for the report. I agree it should be fixed but I think we don't
need to hold up 2.0.3 for it.
>> Are there any other killer bugs that need urgent attention? If not I
>> think
>> we should release 2.0.3 with the latest set of bug fixes in place.
>
> Is there any metabug open for STABLE?
>
> I do have a list of bugs that should be fixed in STABLE.
>
> One of the things that make Abiword difficult to use with multiple
> languages,
> at least under win32, is the fact that is you change the language of a
> document in a medium size document (>20 pages), it takes ages (>1 minute,
> some
> times). This is reported in bugzilla. Also, it's very slow loading
> complex
> documents.
>
> I do not know if Hub feels like backporting the fixes for speeding up the
> backend that were made a couple of weeks back.
>
Is the speed of changing languages in HEAD acceptible now?
Cheers
Martin
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