The obscure feature you are recalling is probably "AutoSummarize".
Using the MSWordView tables code won't help very much, since that code
mostly just converts things to HTML. The underlying problem will
remain until AbiWord itself has the ability to format things in
tables.
--> disclaimer: This is not an indictment, merely a request for > information. > > There is an open source program called MSWordView that is able to > convert a MS Word 97 table into HTML. I tried version 0.7.4 of abiword > and it does not handle tables well (if at all). I have a friend who > could end his dual boot days if he had a piece of software on Linux that > could import and export tables in MS Word 97 format. Is there a plan to > work on tables in the future, which has just not been begun? Didn't > there used to be a roadmap of features on the abisource web site? I > can't find it. Also, there was a great article at the inception of > Abiword about a certain feature that was in Word that would never be > included in Abiword. It was a feature that was incredibly obscure and > of little use to most people (if anyone). I can't find that article, if > anyone knows what I am babbling about. Anyway, back to my original > point. MSWordView's home page is at > http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html and it is GPL'd so the > Abiword developers should be able to use the code to improve the Word 97 > import features. Maybe they already know about this code and it is just > incompatible with the abiword architecture. I don't know. I'd like to > know. > > Keith Wear
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