Welcome to my second release of the word processor AbiWord! AbiWord is part of a
larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear
Corporation. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform,
Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the project's word processor.
AbiWord is also part of the Gnome office suite.


New in this release
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  * Working localisation!
  * User defined charts (Menu item "Insert/Object/Gnome Office Chart...")
  * Keybindings can be loaded from a XML-file (LoadBindings plugin)
  * Loader for multipart HTML (*.mht)
  * Picture loader for IFF-ILBM files
  * Menu item "Insert/Symbol..." works now
  * Several bugfixes


Features
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  AbiWord is a word processor with a lot of features:

    1.  A familiar interface
    2.  Outstanding file import and export, with support for MS Word,
        WordPerfect, OpenOffice, OpenDocument and more
    3.  Unlimited undo and redo capacity
    4.  Solid (X)HTML export, with CSS styles support
    5.  Images
    6.  Spelling support, with optional underlining. Supported spelling systems:
        ispell, aspell and myspell.
    7.  Bullets and Lists
    8.  Styles
    9.  Table of Contents generation and customization through the Stylist
    10. Complete, intuitive revisions-tracking support
    11. Nested tables support, nearly unmatched in the field
    12. Mail merge
    13. Bidirectional text support
    14. Command-line and server use modes for document processing capabilities
    15. Script plugin with support of script in unix style
        DOS and ARExx scripts are possible.
    16. HTML online help files are included (english, french, polish)
        ...


Installation
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  The X11 environment AmiCygnix version 1.0 (or higher) must be installed
  before! AmiCygnix is available on OS4-depot (http://os4depot.net).

  To install the package, just click on the install icon. The data will be
  installed into the AmiCygnix package. Afterwards you can find the program in
  "Cygnix:Software/AbiWord-2.6".


Known Problems
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  Please refer to "AbiWord-en.guide".


Donations
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  If you like to support my work, you can make a donation by using paypal:

   http://www.schwan-clan.de/amiga/Donate.html

  Thank you very much!


Thanks to...
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  ... Hans Verkuil for his initial port of X11R6.3 to OS 3.x