AbiWord Weekly News #101 by Jesper Skov | Linux Today

AbiWord Weekly News #101 by Jesper Skov

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 23, 2002

“AbiWord development is ramping up. This week there has been a
massive amount of development happening, on many different fronts:
tables are gaining features that make them look really pwetty, font
support improvements on Unix (also looks really pwetty), we now
have automatic download of spell checker dictionaries, and there’s
been many many bugs fixes.

“There’s also been some mumbling from E. A. Zen and Mark Gilbert
taking over the editing of AbiWord Weekly News, so there’s a good
chance you may still be able to get your weekly fix when I stop AWN
work in a week or two…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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