Re: ambitions of Abi-word

Custodis wrote:

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> Custodis wrote:
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>> J.M. Maurer wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:09 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 19:25 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
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>>>>>> - will Abi support scripting in the nearby future? Can Abi use the
>>>>>> things that will be developed by Gnumeric for this purpose? Do both
>>>>>> projects collaborate on this issue?
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>>>>> I forget what the current state of scripting is in Abiword but as
>>>>> far as I
>>>>> can recally we haven't shared any infrastructure with Gnumeric in
>>>>> this
>>>>> area (not yet anyway) although there is collaboration in other areas.
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>>>>> What do you need the scripting for? Abiword provides other ways to
>>>>> automate certian tasks so you may not even need scripting.
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>>>> I seem to remember there being a plugin that works with gnomedb that
>>>> allows scripting between AbiWord and Gnumeric. I could be
>>>> mis-remembering (it was something I read online somewhere, never used
>>>> it).
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>>>> It apparently only worked in Gnome, though - so that a certain plugin
>>>> could be built.
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>>> It's the GDA plugin, which allows you to insert data from databases for
>>> example. Not sure if you can use it to mailmerge, but that should be
>>> fairly trivial to implement.
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>> You are very optimistic. I was thinking that mail merging with a
>> spreadsheet is not so easy. OOo and even Word still have problems
>> with it. I will look in to the plugin (I probable need some help with
>> it). Thanks for the suggestion.
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> It seems the GDA plugin is is for Linux and not for Windows. Is that
> wright?

Yes. Mail merge exists on Windows but cannot run with GDA/GnomeDB backends.

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>>> Marc
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