I wasn't whining. ;) But I did want to know what the rationale was. My dad uses Abi for all of his office work (lots of Spanish and English), and wanted to know if there was something wrong with it.
If it was causing problems with fonts, that answers my question. - Paul R On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 04:34, civileme wrote: > shane wrote: > > >On Sunday 07 April 2002 12:05 am, Randy Kramer opened a hailing frequency > >and transmitted: > > > >>shane wrote: > >> > >>>On Saturday 06 April 2002 11:06 pm, Paul Rodríguez opened a hailing > >>> > >>>frequency and transmitted: > >>> > >>>>Why was Abiword not included as part of 8.2? > >>>> > >>>if i remember correctly this was asked, and the general feel seemed to > >>>be "cause they haven't changed the package in so long it is damn near > >>>useless now" > >>> > >>It's too bad people perceive it that way. AbiWord seems to be a fairly > >>active development project especially considering the small number of > >>developers and time available for each. They are currently > >>concentrating on several "bugfix" releases prior to releasing 1.0, which > >>will *not* have tables and some other features people desire. > >> > > > >i agree, and if nothing else it provides one more office app choice. more > >choice is always good. i am only pointing out what i recall a few posters > >saying. it may have even been another list. > > > >if only kword and staroffice could better open some of my older files, as > >well as share files better......... > > > Why was/was not package xxx included in 8.2? > > Look at the CDs! 650, 649, and 648 Mb--MAXed!!!! > > Some choices had to be made and Abiword has a track record of > interfering with other programs by way of its fonts. We did not want > another 8.0 case on our hands.... > > Gee, Pike, a wonderfully comfortable scripting language isn't there > either and SmallEiffel bit the dust, and no one thought to include the > famous old web browser Grail, and.... > > Sheesh, go to a Mandrake mirror and look in the /contribs directory. We > rarely throw anything away. You will find SIAG Office there, too. > > Civileme > > > > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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