Congratulations and thanks!

Today for the first time in a long time (I don't use a word processor
very often since I switched to Linux), I had occasion to use Abiword (I
had used it occasionally a long time ago) and look at the XML output in
an editor.

I was thoroughly impressed! What I remember from years ago was very
ugly XML, with each (iirc) fragment of a word-wrapped paragraph
enclosed in its own (often long) bit of XML markup. Exaggerating, I'm
sure, but I remember it as looking something like this:

<p props:"font-family:Times New Roman; margin-top:0pt; color:000000;
margin-left:0pt; blah, blah blah>This is a second paragraph, separated
by one</p>
<p props:"font-family:Times New Roman; margin-top:0pt; color:000000;
margin-left:0pt; blah, blah blah>line. If I remember correctly from
much longer ago (maybe it has</p>

Today (even with a sentence fragment in bold face type), it looked like
this:

<p style="Normal" xid="2">This is a second paragraph, separated by one
line.  If I remember correctly from much longer ago (maybe it has
changed since), if <c props="font-weight:bold">you look at the
markup</c> from Microsoft Word--oh, well maybe I'm thinking of the
markup when you ask Word to export something as HTML, you get similar
results.</p>

Further, I decided to take a look at the HTML output--it looked like
this:

<p>This is a second paragraph, separated by one line. &nbsp;If I
remember correctly from much longer ago (maybe it has changed since),
if <span style="font-weight:bold">you look at the markup</span> from
Microsoft Word--oh, well maybe I'm thinking of the markup when you ask
Word to export something as HTML, you get similar results.</p>

I'm thoroughly impressed. It even added the &nbsp; that I add sometimes
when I'm writing HTML manually to achieve two spaces between sentences.

Wonderful work, guys, thanks!

Randy Kramer
Received on Tue Apr 26 17:29:57 2011