Talk:AbiWord

message: Worth mentioning that abiword uses xml as a file format?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.174.216.103 (talk) 09:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: xml

message: I'm surprised not to see more mention of BeOS in the history section, which appears to start with the Linux port and the opensourcing of the code.
I was using BeOS in the late 90s, on Intel, and unless I very much misremember, at that time Abiword was only developed on and targetted at BeOS. It was only later when that business was clearly failing that they ported to Linux, and started looking at targeting appliances, and when even that failed the source was opened.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.52.149.70 (talk) 18:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is simply no way it was every only developed on Beos, you must be thinking of Gobe Productive Suite or something else. Abiword from the beginning was cross platform and the Sourcegear developers were aware enough of the market to always have Windows as a target platform.  As it stands BeOS is a platform that only had a small market share and the Abiword port was behind the other platforms (far as I remember even QNX was better maintained) and the BeOS version was long ago declared dead and no longer to be maintained. BeOS just isn't all that notable in the history of abiword, it is just another platform they used to support.  -- Horkana (talk) 00:31, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: BeOS

message: I merged the salient bits of information from the languages section and the version history into a Features section.  The grammar checking screenshot is gone, that sort of thing belongs on a project page.  Also gone is a link to a Slashdot news article about Abiword beating OpenOffice to a grammar checker.  All said, I think I made it more WP:NPOV.  --Chris Pickett 03:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is cleaner after your edits.  The languages it supports are numerous enough that it isn't worth mentioning.  I think the version history could potentially be useful & would propose a table, as in Openoffice.org#History.  I think that the grammar checking is quite relevant & warrants more than a mere bullet point, though.  Was AbiWord the first F/OSS word processor with a grammar checker? --Karnesky 03:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think version history isn't really relevant, even on the OpenOffice site.  Can you imagine if every wikipedia page about a piece of software tried to summarize the version history for that software?  I guess you could copy and paste the open office version table here, but I think a link to the project version history would be better for those interested (it will be more accurate).  As for grammar checking, that screenshot was kind of weak (no offense to anybody---I mean, it has some silly sentences and words underlined in green), what I do think might be useful though is a grammar checking column in the bottom comparison of word processors table.  That it was the first to have grammar checking... well, I don't know if that's important or not; either it has it or it doesn't.  If OpenOffice doesn't have it, it will show up as a red square in the table, or you could mention the lack of grammar checking on the OO.o page, and say that Abiword does have it.  Well, just my thoughts.  Cheers, Chris Pickett 04:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that some amount of notable history is "encyclopedic."  I don't feel strongly on version history--just throwing it out there that MS Office, WordPerfect, and OO.o all have history in their articles.  Talk of history is good.  If more software articles had them, this would read less like a SourceForge dump.  If more history was included in the text, I'd be happier.  I agree that the screenshot of a grammar checker isn't really needed, but I think that the date it was addded would be notable. --Karnesky 04:33, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ok, fair enough, so why not add a copy of the table from one of the other pages?  The old version history that was here can be seen in the pages log.  --Chris Pickett 04:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

text: We cannot have an article on each piece of software which ever existed. Please state why Abiword deserves an article, and how it stands out from real word processors like OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word. Also WP:NOTABILITY, WP:NOTADVERTISING 178.49.18.203 (talk) 17:08, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  You're right we can't have an article about every peice of Software that ever existed, thankfully no one has ever proposed such a thing. I think it is clear from the article why it is notable. Its the default word processor for several Linux based distributions. People use abiword and if they want some general information about it they will come to wikipedia, we should not disappoint them. I use abiword and was interested in general info about it. Thankfully this article exists. Check out the external links and references, Frankly I don't understand the nature of your query, though it is likely that you are referring to a much early version of the article which was perhaps not very encyclopedic. I have read the notability guidelines and am removing the questionable notability banner. Do a google search for abiword if you still have doubts. Metal.lunchbox (talk) 00:50, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Article cleanup

message: Having a section showing all the languages AbiWord is translated into seems a bit much.  Should it be removed, or simplified? bruce89 12:18, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages section 

message: This isn't a notable event, it's lame one-up-manship. If Abi had been the first word processor to have a grammar checker then yes, this would be lead-worthy. As-is, it looks like a petty slap on OpenOffice. It's fine in the article body. Chris Cunningham 09:42, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please add it where you think it would be appropriate.  I personally think it is fine in the intro.  It had grammar checking before KOffice too & was probably the first F/OSS word processor that had it.  Multiple independent news sources lauded AbiWord for beating OO.o Writer to the punch.  I think it is fine to report that fact.  If you don't re-add it to where you see fit, can I revert you?  It seems better to have it in the intro than not at all.  --Karnesky 15:40, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  There's already a link to the same reference as was used in the lead in the Features section; I take it you mean that you want the "first free software grammar checker" note added back? Cool, feel free to add that to the article body (which needs expanded anyway). What isn't suitable is having a specific comparison to OOo in the lead over a random feature. Chris Cunningham 16:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar checker 

message: I'm not sure whether adoption would be the right term for that section. In addition, there should also be a mention of Microsoft Windows. I'll remove Adoption for now.
-- Astroview120mm 02:49, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand you. Adoption tells which Linux distributions ship AbiWord as it's default Word Processor. Why should there be a mention of Windows? I've never heard that AbiWord comes with it...? Kristjans 22:44, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adoption 

message: I'm trying to open up a .ashx document that was written in AbiWord with Microsoft Word and notepad and it just comes up blank. The file size is 5 kb, is this the usual size for blank .abw files?Ask D.N.A.- Peter Napkin (talk) 21:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  File sizes 

message: It still has some bugs. The British version of the dictionary is installed in the folder above the dictionary folder, and needs to be moved to get it to work. Someone else reported that the spelling checker did not recognise apostrophied words when in "smart quote" mode. 92.24.191.30 (talk) 13:13, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So what? It's not a bugzilla.178.49.18.203 (talk) 17:03, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bugs 

message: Presently, the article states that the name "AbiWord" is pronounced "Abby Word."  While this may seem intuitive to English speakers familiar with the name "Abby," it is actually pronounced ab-bee and in Spanish "A-B."  The original referenced web page more carefully says, "it is just like Abby."  I am going to revise this sentence to reflect the subtle difference between how a word is pronounced and words that are pronounced similairly. --Tumacama (talk) 14:49, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The name "AbiWord" (pronounced "Abby Word") is derived from the root of the Spanish word "abierto", meaning "open". 

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message: Article says "Development of a version for Microsoft Windows has temporarily ended due to lack of maintainers (the latest released versions are 2.8.6 and 2.9.4 beta).". It also says Stable release is 3.0.5. So, the first sentence should be amended.
Also, the Repository (abisource.com/viewvc/abiword/) & that website's home (abisource.com) are not available. I don't know if that is a temporary problem or permanent, for now. 99.7.207.171 (talk) 21:26, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Website went down and DNS entries disappeared about 6 months ago. Then the DNS entries came back, but the webste remains gone. I assume it is permanent. A partial mirror of the website can be found at http://www.nl.abisource.com/ 67.198.37.16 (talk) 06:02, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest Version