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Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL
i think the problem is not only adding bidi support,
but also adding/modifing the input filters so it can import hebrew
documents ( it will be a lot better if it could read MsWord format ... )
regards
erez.
Ira Abramov wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
>
> >
> > > I think that we all together will code the hebrew support for office, it
> > > will be not so hard..
>
> > You don't have to wait for Star office. There are a few free word
> > processors already:
> > Abiword
> > Maxwell
> > KWord
>
> none of them is a full office suite yet.
>
> >
> > And probably any of them is easier to add bidi support than Star, since
> > they are smaller.
>
> interesting conclusion, I can't see how it was derivied. the size of the
> code (which you don't know, because you didn't download for StarOffice
> yet) has nothing to do with the complexity or extendability of the
> wordprocessor's rendering engine's code. for all you know it's spaghetti
> in Abi and KWord and clean in StarOffice. it all remains to be seen.
>
> I encourage our esteemed membrs of the list who can afford the tiome and
> knowhow to pool for this cause. be it for Kword or office or Abi.
>
> --
> Ira Abramov, GNU/Linux advocate.
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