Alina Meridon
Alina Meridon
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Link to fjf's AbiWord page
fjf's AbiWord page
(local site)

Crazy Wormhole

Wow, it's been ages since I last updated this page! About 6 months, I guess. All the AbiWord updates and notes were at my AbiWord page.

But what about this page? (Not that anyone ever looks at it, but still...) Recently I started using Opera 8 which has built-in support for SVG and doesn't use the Adobe SVG plug-in. While I think it's great that Opera supports SVG, it has problems with the text I had in the SVG image at the top of the previous version of this page. Instead of a winding, dwindling line of "Crazy, crazy, crazy,..." I could see only two black lines tracing the path of the text. I guess the SVG image was using Adobe extensions. Anyway, I've decided on a new header image based on the AbiWord "Swoosh-A" logo which I've been playing around with lately for fun.

AbiWord

So, what's going on in the AbiWord world? We're racing towards a major new release - 2.4 - and naturally the Cocoa port needs lots and lots of work, and alas there's only a couple of developers worrying away at it. Amongst other things, the new version has English grammar support and also support for displaying MathML equations (these can be entered as LaTeX expressions) thanks to the wonderful GtkMathView.

Screen shot of AbiWord showing equations.

Aiksaurus

I managed to get myself admin. status for the SourceForge Aiksaurus project so the best place to look for downloads is there. The official Aiksaurus project website is also on SourceForge.