Re: where are the abiword 2.4.5 (linux) plugins?

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Wolfgang Keller wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:57:47 +0200
> From: Wolfgang Keller <wolfgang.keller.nospam@gmx.de>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: where are the abiword 2.4.5 (linux) plugins?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> > If you are interested in any particular plugins please let us know.
>
> Well, you asked for it so here's the wishlist: >;->
>
> - a Python plugin to script Abiword in Python
> - a database plugin (ODBC or also Python's DB-API 2) to pull content for
> documents from a database

sounds familiar, I recall there was a way to do a mail merge from a
database backend but I dont remeber the specifics (not necessarily
available for windows)

> - a plugin to restrict the user to only use the styles defined in a given
> template, to enforce consistency and thus re-usability of documents

Already built in feature of Abiword.

> - an SVN plugin that allows to directly open/save documents from/to
> subversion, updating them and diffing them using the redlining function in
> Abiword

I think if you build abiword with the right gnome-vfs modules you can get
a document management system (the kind of person asking this question
should know the difference between a DMS and VCS and if it would be enough
for what you really need).

> - a gnumeric plugin to pull content from gnumeric tables (_not_ to embed
> them)

I think something similar already exists as part of the whole mail merge
functionality.

> *grinning*,

you'll be grinning even more when you realise how much of this is already
almost there

> *ducking* & *running away veryvery fast zigzagging wildly*

and the rest is probably requested in bugzilla. when this discussion
winds down you should probably file a few requests in bugzilla and make
sure to include links to this discussion in the mailing list archives,
that way thing will not be forgotten about.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Mon Sep 11 20:43:21 2006