Subject: Re: FYI
From: Robert G. Werner (rwerner@lx1.microbsys.com)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 22:18:39 CDT
I think footnotes might be something you want to sneak in befor the
1.0 release. Almost every WP since befor Star Writer has been able
todo them. Academic writing used to demand them (most of my profs
prefered citations with bibliographies at the end).
On the scale of complexity (and I'm saying this knowing very little
about the Abi code) it seems that footnotes could be implemented much
more easily than tables.
Anyway, I don't want to be rude or ungrateful for all you've all
worked on. Endnotes won't keep me from using Abi (I use it to make
fax cover sheets, about the only thing for which I use any WP).
Just thought I'd throw in another opinion.
Robert G. Werner
rwerner@lx1.microbsys.com
2001/9/11
"Nuclear war would really set back cable."
- Ted Turner
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> >
> > I have just learned, and thought you might be interested to know,
> > that the computing officer at the Faculty of Divinity, Edinburgh
> > University, has decided not to bulk-upgrade the existing Office 97
> > to Office 2000, but rather is considering to install AW instead on
> > most of the 100 or so PC on the faculty network. There are only
> > two things that stand in the way of this being done straight away,
> > lack of table and footnote support; I think she might put up with no
> > tables for time being, but footnotes are a must.
> >
> > It has motivated me to get back to the endnotes, for properly
> > working endnotes would be a good step in the footnote evolution.
> >
>
> Hi Tomas,
> When I first read your message I almost volenteered to start on
> footnotes right away. But upon reflection I think it would be best for us
> to get 1.0 out of the way as soon as possible.
>
> Why? Well the by far the number 1 thing people want us to have are tables.
> I think I know how to do these. I'm sure I could implement a lot of other
> cool features too, but Tables are what most people need most from us and
> frankly, it is the lack of tables that mostly has me running back to Word.
>
> All the official forms I have to deal with a work seem to have these and
> abi just doesn't do them anything like right.
>
> So the next major feature I implement will be tables. However I'm fairly
> confident that implementing these will make abi unusable for a while so
> I'd rather put these off till post 1.0.
>
> So I'd like to stick to the idea of a soft feature freeze post 0.9.5
> followed by agressive bug fixing to get 1.0 out by Christmas if
> possible.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
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