Changes sine 0.7.9
User Interface
Modeless dialogs (Martin Sevior)
Start of GoTo dialog. (Joaquín Cuenca Abela)
Improvements to Word Count dialog on Linux (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt)
Start of Show Paragraphs (Alexey Sinutin)
Localizations
A Galician translation was added by Jesus Bravo Alvarez
(jba@pobox.com) Also updated translations are Danish (Birger
Langkjer and Martin Hansen), German (Harald Fernengel), Spanish
(Joaqun Cuenca Abela), and Swedish (Linus G Larsson)
Bug Fixes
Major editing bugs cleaned up (Bruce Pearson)
Better RTF import for accented chars and hyphens (Hubert Figuiere)
Ruler anomalies (Aaron Lehman)
Various Other Bugs: #250 (Sam Tobin-Hochstatd), #274 (Mike
Nordell), #435 (HJ), #443 (Matt Kraai), #596 (Martin Sevior),
#604 (Kenny MacDonald), and #843 (Hubert Figuiere).
Other
Updated build process to handle new CYGWIN tools (Michael D. Pritchett)
Another step toward Word export (James Montgomerie) )
incorporated into the AbiWord main source tree. Changes from 0.7.8:
User Interface
+ Insert Symbol dialog (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
+ Word Count dialog (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt)
+ Overwrite Mode added (Alexey Sinutin)
+ Set Page Margins from ruler (Bruce Pearson)
+ Insert Field dialog (Henrik Berg)-- not fully enabled due to
pending changes in the underlying fields implementation.
Bug Fixes
+ The infamous libpng bug (Justin Bradford and Sam
Tobin-Hochstadt)
+ Underline/superscript fix (Martin Sevior)
+ View Ruler consistency (Kevin Vajk)
+ RTF CR/LF handing (Harald Fernengel)
+ Various Other Bugs: #522 (sterwill@sourcegear.com), #10 and
#811 (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt), #302 (Aaron Lehmann), #352
(Henrik Berg), #432 and #776 (Martin Sevior), #637 (Andy
Richardson), #651 (Matt Kraai), #770 (Matthew Allen), #782
(Danny Faught), #788 and #789 (Joaquin Cuenca Abela)
Other
+ Various localizations
+ Updated XML parser to version 1.1 (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt)
+ Mac port beginning (Bryan Prusha)
+ Lots of Gnome dialogs (John Tunison) -- no Gnome binaries for
0.7.9 but will be available in the next release
+ Command line conversions (Joaquin Cuenca Abela) -- for a
complete list, type AbiWord -help from a command prompt
True WYSIWYG. Previously, we had subtle reformatting discrepancies when
changing resolutions (such as printing and zooming).
No more character dirt.
Overline support.
Minor display glitches.
Insert Date and Time.
Page-level navigation.
Better support for non-English content.
LaTeX exporter.
Word importer. Justin and Caolan have fixed things so that tabstops,
breaks, unicode conversion, page break before, widow/orphan control are all
imported successfully now.
RTF importer. Now handles negative values for margin-left and
text-indent.
Minor file format change.
Error propagation.
Unix stuff. By popular request, libstdc++ is no longer required. (We
never really needed it anyhow.) PostScript emissions now use signed
characters, as suggested by Bob Monaghan <bob@sbst.com>. With the latest
fonts.dir, Symbol fonts should print properly now, too.
First support for GNOME.
Spelling speedup. The interactive spell check logic is now fast and
smart like it should be, instead of woefully poky and dumb like it used to
be.
Subscript and superscript.
View ruler. Stephen Hack <shack@uiuc.edu> implemented this menu item so
that you can hide or show the ruler on a per-window basis.
Compressed AbiWord files. The AbiWord file format (*.abw) was designed
from the get-go to be a highly-readable form of XML. However, for those of
you who care more about bloat than legibility, Richard Jefts
<babs@cs.jhu.edu>
added import/export logic for a gzip-compressed variant (*.zabw).
Options dialog started.
Zoom and Paragraph dialogs.
Justification.
Clipboard improvements.
More Unicode-friendly.
Smarter preferences.
