{"id":150,"date":"2003-10-16T23:45:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T23:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20031016234556"},"modified":"2003-10-17T05:09:22","modified_gmt":"2003-10-17T05:09:22","slug":"16102003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/16102003\/","title":{"rendered":"First outing of the AbiWord Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made available the first version of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abisource.com\/\">AbiWord<\/a> content plugin.  This is an experimental release which has undergone light testing.  It requires PubTal 2.0: <a href=\"downloads\/plugins\/PubTal-2.0\/abiwordContent-0.1.tar.gz\">Download AbiWord-Content Plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Features currently supported include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heading 1,2 and 3.<\/li>\n<li>Text styles (bold, italic, etc).<\/li>\n<li>Bullet and Number lists.<\/li>\n<li>Margin-left offsets.<\/li>\n<li>Hyper-links and anchors.<\/li>\n<li>Endnotes and Footnotes (which become Endnotes).<\/li>\n<li>Tables.<\/li>\n<li>PlainText (which is wrapped in &lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things that I haven&#8217;t been able to get working yet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Images.  There&#8217;s nothing particularly sensible I can do with these because the source file isn&#8217;t preserved by AbiWord.<\/li>\n<li>Different kinds of list (diamond, etc).  A bug in Abiword stops good XML being produced for these in the version I&#8217;m using.<\/li>\n<li>Numbered Headings and Sections.  The same XML bug is stopping support for these as well.<\/li>\n<li>Page headers and footers.  I&#8217;m not sure what should be done with these, especially as they can change from page to page and section to section.<\/li>\n<li>Font name,colour, etc.  I could add support for these but I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s a good idea.  In the web world changing font should really be done through a site level CSS style sheet rather than on a per-page basis.  I might make this an option in a future version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you download and use this plugin please email me and let me know whether it works for you.  I&#8217;m using AbiWord 1.99.5, and aside from the unsupported stuff, it seems 100% reliable so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made available the first version of my AbiWord content plugin. This is an experimental release which has undergone light testing. It requires PubTal 2.0: Download AbiWord-Content Plugin. Features currently supported include: Heading 1,2 and 3. Text styles (bold, italic, etc). Bullet and Number lists. Margin-left offsets. Hyper-links and anchors. Endnotes and Footnotes (which become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}