[sugar] Abiword on the OLPC?

[msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au]

> MBurns wrote:
>> Given the weight and complexity of Abirword, a more simplistic and
>> Python-written editor still seems to have an attractive option.
>
> In practice, people who write Python editors tend to use some existing
> editor, for whatever reason.  I guess the specifics of editing large
> chunks of text involve lots of fine-grained UI that is intimately tied
> to the underlying GUI system (e.g., GTK).
>
>> If the OLPC is planning a more web-based interface, with collaboration
>> and UIs being presented in the form of natively hosted webpages, most of
>> the above Editor ideas fall by the wayside.
>
> A wiki doesn't *have* to mean a web-based interface, at least not
> exclusively.
>
> There is a wiki markup:
> http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=users/krstic/docformat;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=document-format.txt
> -- if Abiword could read and write that markup (even disabling styling
> controls that aren't supported by the markup) that'd be very useful.
>
> The wiki content should be accessible over dbus, and just as available
> to Abiword as to other user agents.  And maybe (?) the backend will
> handle remote (offline?) editing seamlessly.
>

This will be no problem at all, including the table and Math
specficifications since we already use both Latex and MathML for math
equations. Once the spec is stable and there are a few reference examples
we'll implement it. We could even make it the default for OLPC if so
desired.

If someone has a hankering to implement this as an import/export filter
just drop by the AbiWord ML or our IRC channel and we'll get you started.

Otherwise the AbiWord community will get round to doing it.

Cheers

Martin

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