AbiWord 0.9.4 Changelog

This document is a list of all changes made to AbiWord between versions 0.9.3 and 0.9.4. It records changes to the development version, and they may not all be visible in the user binaries, particularly for new features which are incomplete or particularly buggy.

Joaquin Cuenca Abela

Added a perl interpreter to the Win32 build.

Code additions to allow dynamic alteration of the menus depending on whether a plug-in is loaded (initially for use with the Thesaurus plug in).

Various bug fixes.

John Anderson

Win32 bug fix.

John Clark

HTML export bug fix.

Jared Davis

Work on a Thesaurus plug-in.

Jeremy Davis

Fixes to make BiDi work on Win32.

Hubert Figuiere

Work on rtf stylesheet import and export.

Bug fixes, including 1688, 1883, and work on 1926.

Tomas Frydrych

Bidirectional text bug fixes and improvements, including moving to fribidi.

Endnote improvements.

Fix postscript printing with UTF-8.

Changes to behaviour of pilcrow.

Removed some bogus asserts.

Alan Horkan

Strings correction.

Web page links fix.

Web page HTML corrections.

Rename COPYING as COPYING.TXT on Win32.

Fixed bug 1662.

Marco Innocenti

Italian translation update.

William Lachance

More work on the Word Perfect importer.

Dom Lachowicz

UT_Worker class. This is the basis for a bit of recoding that should vastly speed up operations such as spell checking.

Made UT_Timer a subclass of UT_Worker.

Idle loop base class.

ut_unixidle, which makes spell checking very fast on unix.

Changes to the Plug-in API to make them easier to write.

New dialogs for Import and Export.

Updates to wv.

KWord importer improvements.

Bug fixes, including file import and 1984.

Per Larsson

Swedish translation update.

David Mandelin

RTF stylesheet export.

UT_Win32Idle. This should make spellchecking much, much faster.

Win32 build patch.

Christian Meyer

KWord importer improvements.

Matti Picus

RTF import bug fixes.

Add ability to import stylesheets from rtf; this involved a lot of work.

Michael Pritchett

New Win32 installer.

Enabled Plug-ins for Windows, and provided a functionless test plug-in.

Win32 scripting update.

Win32 Import/Export command.

Win32 COPYING rename.

Win32 bug fixes, including 2018.

Rui Seabra

RPM spec file.

Martin Sevior

Work on rtf stylesheet import and export.

Changed the behaviour of styles so that you only get the 'next style' if you type return at the end of a paragraph.

Improved handling of lists with multiple views of the same document.

Other improvements to lists, including easier selection.

Fix so that the idle loop doesn't use 100% of CPU time.

Bug fixes, including 2020.