Re: Abiword Documentation

> On 2016/08/07, at 18:44, Leon Stedman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 1. David Chart, who is named as documenter, is not contactable on the =
e-mail address given.

It=E2=80=99s 13 years old.

> He does not appear to have changed any documents since 2003.

That sounds about right. There might possibly be something that I =
changed in 2004, but probably not.

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> Each unit of documentation consists of two files. An Abiword document =
and an "info" file. The info file is plain text and three lines long. =
These two files are compiled. using "make", a python script, and =
standard headers and footers (all part of the "documents" distribution), =
into an HTML file used by Abiword.

IIRC, part of the reason for this was to ensure that Abiword=E2=80=99s =
HTML export was constantly being tested.

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> I had intended to write some new documents, but I have found that the =
existing documents, excellent though they were when written in 2002/3, =
are so far out of date as to be useless.

That sounds about right. I=E2=80=99m not entirely sure that 1.0 had been =
released when I stopped work.

If you want to rewrite from scratch, do so with my blessing. I don=E2=80=99=
t have time to work on this any more, and haven=E2=80=99t for years. =
It=E2=80=99s good to see someone picking it up.

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David Chart
http://www.davidchart.com/