fedora-devel-list Digest, Vol 12, Issue 108

[Martin Sevior]

> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:32:22 -0500
> From: John Thacker <thacker at math.cornell.edu>
> Subject: Re: fedora-devel-list Digest, Vol 12, Issue 104
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
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> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:18:01PM +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > 
> > The AbiWord community is as vibrant as ever. We committed over 300,000
> > LOC of changes to the code base over 14 months to produce AbiWord-2.2.
> > We implemented all sorts of cool stuff that neither MS Word or OOo has.
> > We implemented features that make the users job of creating documents
> > easier and more fun. We want that code to be seen and used and
> > appreciated by as many people as possible. We're in a position to be
> > widely deployed across heterogenic communities like Universities and
> > Schools since we have Windows, Mac and Linux clients. 
> 
> I otherwise like the program, but it's an incredible PIA for me to use
> because of its absolutely horrible CJK support.  So I essentially never
> use it, even though a few years ago Japanese support (on Linux) went from 
> "completely unavailable" to "laughably horrible."  OOo has very nice,
> mature, professional CJK features.
> 
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=cjk
> 
> Now I see that someone made it "not totally suck" on MacOSX recently,
> so maybe there's hope yet for AbiWord.
> 

See the post from today.

http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2005/Mar/0002.html

Join in. Be part of the solution. As I said we're a grass roots
organisation that responds to real people with real problems.
We're VERY responsive to people with patches.

AbiWord takes less than 10 minutes to build from scratch on a modern
computer so the threshold for testing stuff is not high. Just testing
and telling us what works for CJK and what doesn't is really useful.

Cheers

Martin