AbiWord Weekly News for August 30 , 2000 | Linux Today

AbiWord Weekly News for August 30 , 2000

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 4, 2000

“These last two weeks saw 28 patches go into the tree, from 17
different developers. In that time period, we gained one new
developer. Congratulations to Peter.”

“The biggest improvement in the last two weeks has been the
addition of the tabs dialog, originally by Stephen Hack, with later
work by Aaron and Martin. Currently, there are both GNOME, Win32
and Unix front ends, with a QNX version in development.”

“Another major XP feature was smart quotes, which are now
displayed properly, after long discussion and infrastructure work.
Of course, this patch is from Bill Carpenter.”

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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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