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Re: KOffice-1.1 Beta2 Released !
by Dom Lachowicz on Tuesday 22/May/2001, @21:56

Hi All,

For what it's worth, I'm the lead developer/maintainer of AbiWord (www.abisource.com) and wvWare (www.wvware.com)

MSFT's file formats aren't proprietary, nor is reverse engineering them illegal. If you go to either site, you'll see OLE2 docs, docs on the DOC format, etc...

wvWare and Abi both have really good support for importing DOC. I'm trying to add support for exporting to DOC inside of wvWare right now, though. If anyone from the KWord development team is reading this and would like to collaborate on making something like this a reality, I'd really appreciate it. I'd hate to see a duplication of effort on this sort of scale when it could so easily be avoided.

Thanks,
Dom

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when will abiword support tables?
by naloquin on Wednesday 23/May/2001, @00:02

So when do we get tables in abiword. I love abi.

And are guys sharing code with the Koffice guys?

Cheers

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Abi=Import/KWord=Features, but me? LyX BAY-BEE!!!
by Bryan J. Smith on Wednesday 23/May/2001, @11:18

It is obvious to me that AbiWord is striving for the best DOC import quality, and features are slowly coming in. KWord seems to be the opposite, features and capabilities are priority, DOC import secondary.

Frankly, what are you doing using a document "standard" that the company that created it cannot even get right?!?!?! E.g., ever try MS Word for Mac? And, even worse, how about MS Excel for Mac? Case closed.

If you want to have your documents last 20 years, use LaTeX or SGML. There is a great front-end for them called LyX (http://www.lyx.org). Better yet, you'll find yourself not wasting productivity on fonts and other BS, and writing your document, letting it do all the formatting details (table of contents/figures/tables, margin notes, indicies, footnotes, etc...). I've been using it for close to 3 years now, where I produce 90% of my technical documentation and presentations (built-in PDF export).

I still use Abi for DOC import (and then cut'n paste into Linux), or for quick, non-technical . I'm evaluating KWord for desktop publishing, where LyX won't do (so far, so nice!). I _hate_ word processors, cried when Lotus killed AmiPro and Adobe killed the FrameMaker beta for Linux.

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Re: Abi=Import/KWord=Features, but me? LyX BAY-BE
by Dom Lachowicz on Wednesday 23/May/2001, @17:12

Just FYI and all...

LyX uses wvWare to convert DOC->LaTeX, which LyX then imports. Abi also uses wvWare, but in a different way. Writing a direct LyX output filter for wvWare, for example, should be trivial if someone wants to step up and do the work (I personally have no interest, but will add others' code to the tree). Figure out how to email me.

Dom

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