ambitions of Abi-word

Custodis wrote:

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> J.M. Maurer wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:09 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 19:25 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>>> - will Abi support scripting in the nearby future? Can Abi use the
>>>>> things that will be developed by Gnumeric for this purpose? Do both
>>>>> projects collaborate on this issue?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I forget what the current state of scripting is in Abiword but as
>>>> far as I
>>>> can recally we haven't shared any infrastructure with Gnumeric in this
>>>> area (not yet anyway) although there is collaboration in other areas.
>>>>
>>>> What do you need the scripting for? Abiword provides other ways to
>>>> automate certian tasks so you may not even need scripting.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I seem to remember there being a plugin that works with gnomedb that
>>> allows scripting between AbiWord and Gnumeric. I could be
>>> mis-remembering (it was something I read online somewhere, never used
>>> it).
>>>
>>> It apparently only worked in Gnome, though - so that a certain plugin
>>> could be built.
>>>
>>
>>
>> It's the GDA plugin, which allows you to insert data from databases for
>> example. Not sure if you can use it to mailmerge, but that should be
>> fairly trivial to implement.
>>
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>>
> You are very optimistic. I was thinking that mail merging with a
> spreadsheet is not so easy. OOo and even Word still have problems with
> it. I will look in to the plugin (I probable need some help with it).
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
It seems the GDA plugin is is for Linux and not for Windows. Is that wright?

>
>> Marc
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Received on Fri Nov 18 14:55:22 2005