Re: pretty impressive but...

On 11/8/2009 7:14 PM, Martin Sevior wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Eric S. Johansson<esj@harvee.org> wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> Thank you for your clearly articulated views and comments.
> Have you tried our http://abicollab.net webservice?

that is where linux 2.8 blew up in my friend's face. once I convince her to
wipe the custard pie off her face, I'm sure she'll try again.

> It does quite a lot of what you want though by no means all. We have
> various types of author control but not as fine grained as you
> requested. It is entirely possible to use the history feature of
> http://abicollab.net to see an earlier version of your doc while you
> type in your current version.

I see that. Exporting a functionality through an API would be very powerful
because it would allow people to make changes to things like blogs or books or
papers but also show the history of those changes as integrated user experience.
  I realize limited resources, money etc. but that's where the strength is in
that dimension.
>
> We allow direct publishing to the internet in html, pdf or any of a
> number of different formats.

Should've mentioned I find that awful powerful. One problem however, my
document is doublespaced 12 point Courier. It presents in single space so all
of the extra lines Separating dialogue and narrative have vanished.

>
> We are a full-on word processor. Our annotation feature in 2.8 does
> things differently to margin notes but I personally prefer the way we
> do things to margin notes. In our feature the annotation comments can
> be hidden or fully exposed and printed. They appear at the bottom of
> the page if wanted like footnotes. They popup with a mouse hover
> always. The issue with "find the remote user" is greatly sinmplified
> through our webservice http://abicollab.net where we also make it as
> easy as possible to extract your documents in whatever form you like.

That's not my experience yet. It may be with some learning but just stumbling
around on my own, I never would have seen any of those things. Again, if you or
somebody else could "colaborate" with me on my document, it would be wonderful
to help me understand this and maybe I could explain where I went off the rails.

Another thought, I should be able to invite someone by supplying their e-mail
address. I think I wasn't able to do that. I need to go back and check.

> It is entirely possible to go completely fully screen with AbiWord so
> that only the top menu bar is visible and all page controls are
> removed.

ah good good good.

>
> Have a look at some the documents describing the http://abicollab.net
> at these links:
>
> https://abicollab.net/documents/embed/7851/latest
> https://abicollab.net/documents/embed/3276/latest
> https://abicollab.net/documents/embed/9886/latest
> https://abicollab.net/documents/embed/10651/latest
>
> All those links were written in AbiWord. They all update as soon as I
> press "save" in AbiWord.

am reading.
>
> Feel free to contact us if you would like to help us find partners.
> Your ideas for developing the feature for online publishing are very
> interesting but we need partners to take the ideas forward.

It's the usual time and money issue. I could probably develop this stuff
without too much trouble but I do need to pay for rent, food and health
insurance. I would really love this spawn this market. It could be so powerful
and potentially cut the knees out from from under the big Time publishers.

When I get to sharing, I will transfer a document I have in buzzword that I
wrote as a rough draft/concept piece to sky and telescope telling the magazine
on how they they could reinvent their magazine in the digital age. then I made
it rough again by trying to generalize it. in any case, I'm willing to share
the thoughts for what they are worth.
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Received on Mon Nov 9 01:46:50 2009