AbiWord Weekly News for June 28, 2000 | Linux Today

AbiWord Weekly News for June 28, 2000

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 29, 2000

This week we had 13 new patches checked into the tree, from
7 different authors.
Congratulations to Anders and Bill, our
newest contributors.”

“The most significant patch this week was from Michael
Pritchett, who added a separate Insert Picture dialog, in addition
to fixing bug 296. For his contributions this week, Michael wins
the $299 patch prize awarded by Sourcegear. Congratulations,
Michael.”

“This week’s other big patch was from new contributor Bill
Carpenter, who fixed a number of problems with our handling of
Microsoft Word Smart Quotes. This makes conversion from MS Word
even easier that it already was.”

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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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