AbiWord 2.6.5 pushed, please test!

[J.M. Maurer-2]

Hi all,

I've just updated AbiWord to 2.6.5 in sugar-jhbuild as well as fedora's
OLPC-3 branch. A public release on abisource.com will follow soonish,
but we don't want to keep the kids waiting now, do we?

The most important change in this release for OLPC is "improved complex
script rendering". To be precise: before 2.6.5, AbiWord did not always
shape composite glyphs correctly. This made AbiWord unusable for
languages like Arabic.

So, I'd like to ask everyone familiar with such languages to test
AbiWord 2.6.5. If you use the Write activity that uses libabiword 2.6.5
to test Arabic for example, then make sure to use a font that includes
Arabic glyphs. DejaVu Sans does if I remember correctly[1].

We improved our rendering based on community feedback only, as none of
the AbiWord developers have any knowledge of complex scripts themselves.
Ergo:

  * We depend on your feedback! *

Thanks to all who helped in the process so far.

If you find any bugs, the please file a bug report at
http://bugzilla.abisource.com. Extra kudos if you can reproduce it
reliably :)

Cheers!
  Marc

[1] Write should default to a proper font based on the locale. It's a
known 'bug'.

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[Daniel Drake-5]

Hi Marco,

Thanks for your efforts.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:14 PM, J.M. Maurer <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I've just updated AbiWord to 2.6.5 in sugar-jhbuild as well as fedora's
> OLPC-3 branch. A public release on abisource.com will follow soonish,
> but we don't want to keep the kids waiting now, do we?

You'll have to push to OLPC-4 now, since we moved to F10. And as we
only just did this, there are some problems launching activities right
now, but that will hopefully be fixed within the next few days.

cheers,
Daniel
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[J.M. Maurer-2]

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 23:28 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:

> Hi Marco,
>
> Thanks for your efforts.
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:14 PM, J.M. Maurer <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I've just updated AbiWord to 2.6.5 in sugar-jhbuild as well as fedora's
> > OLPC-3 branch. A public release on abisource.com will follow soonish,
> > but we don't want to keep the kids waiting now, do we?
>
> You'll have to push to OLPC-4 now, since we moved to F10. And as we
> only just did this, there are some problems launching activities right
> now, but that will hopefully be fixed within the next few days.

Thanks for the pointer Daniel! I will file a branch request, and report
when the build is available.

  Marc

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[Greg Smith-18]

Hi Marc,

Can you make a .xo file that people can download and install via the
browser on the XO?

If you can post that, I think I can get a few Arabic speakers with
Arabic XOs to try it out.

Thanks,

Greg S

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Subject: [sugar] AbiWord 2.6.5 pushed, please test!
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Hi all,

I've just updated AbiWord to 2.6.5 in sugar-jhbuild as well as fedora's
OLPC-3 branch. A public release on abisource.com will follow soonish,
but we don't want to keep the kids waiting now, do we?

The most important change in this release for OLPC is "improved complex
script rendering". To be precise: before 2.6.5, AbiWord did not always
shape composite glyphs correctly. This made AbiWord unusable for
languages like Arabic.

So, I'd like to ask everyone familiar with such languages to test
AbiWord 2.6.5. If you use the Write activity that uses libabiword 2.6.5
to test Arabic for example, then make sure to use a font that includes
Arabic glyphs. DejaVu Sans does if I remember correctly[1].

We improved our rendering based on community feedback only, as none of
the AbiWord developers have any knowledge of complex scripts themselves.
Ergo:

   * We depend on your feedback! *

Thanks to all who helped in the process so far.

If you find any bugs, the please file a bug report at
http://bugzilla.abisource.com. Extra kudos if you can reproduce it
reliably  :)

Cheers!
   Marc

[1] Write should default to a proper font based on the locale. It's a
known 'bug'.
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[J.M. Maurer-2]

Hi Greg,

> Can you make a .xo file that people can download and install via the
> browser on the XO?

You don't need an .xo update for this (the current Write version will
work just fine), but an libabiword RPM update. I'm not sure how people
with an XO would retrieve this, as I was out of the loop for a lil'
while and stuff has been changing fast ;)

Anyone?

  Marc

> If you can post that, I think I can get a few Arabic speakers with
> Arabic XOs to try it out.

That would be very much appreciated!

  Marc

> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
> ************
>
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:14:44 +0100
> From: "J.M. Maurer" <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [sugar] AbiWord 2.6.5 pushed, please test!
> To: [hidden email]
> Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've just updated AbiWord to 2.6.5 in sugar-jhbuild as well as fedora's
> OLPC-3 branch. A public release on abisource.com will follow soonish,
> but we don't want to keep the kids waiting now, do we?
>
> The most important change in this release for OLPC is "improved complex
> script rendering". To be precise: before 2.6.5, AbiWord did not always
> shape composite glyphs correctly. This made AbiWord unusable for
> languages like Arabic.
>
> So, I'd like to ask everyone familiar with such languages to test
> AbiWord 2.6.5. If you use the Write activity that uses libabiword 2.6.5
> to test Arabic for example, then make sure to use a font that includes
> Arabic glyphs. DejaVu Sans does if I remember correctly[1].
>
> We improved our rendering based on community feedback only, as none of
> the AbiWord developers have any knowledge of complex scripts themselves.
> Ergo:
>
>    * We depend on your feedback! *
>
> Thanks to all who helped in the process so far.
>
> If you find any bugs, the please file a bug report at
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com. Extra kudos if you can reproduce it
> reliably  :)
>
> Cheers!
>    Marc
>
> [1] Write should default to a proper font based on the locale. It's a
> known 'bug'.

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[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:17 PM, J.M. Maurer <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
>> Can you make a .xo file that people can download and install via the
>> browser on the XO?
>
> You don't need an .xo update for this (the current Write version will
> work just fine), but an libabiword RPM update. I'm not sure how people
> with an XO would retrieve this, as I was out of the loop for a lil'
> while and stuff has been changing fast ;)

Well, this is still pretty much the same, people would need to install
a rpm via the traditional methods and would need root for that.

There's some chance of bundling the libraries inside the .xo,
overriding the ones in the system, though haven't tried that myself
and I'm not sure what it would take.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Anyone?
>
>  Marc
>
>> If you can post that, I think I can get a few Arabic speakers with
>> Arabic XOs to try it out.
>
> That would be very much appreciated!
>
>  Marc
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg S
>>
>> ************
>>
>> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:14:44 +0100
>> From: "J.M. Maurer" <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: [sugar] AbiWord 2.6.5 pushed, please test!
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just updated AbiWord to 2.6.5 in sugar-jhbuild as well as fedora's
>> OLPC-3 branch. A public release on abisource.com will follow soonish,
>> but we don't want to keep the kids waiting now, do we?
>>
>> The most important change in this release for OLPC is "improved complex
>> script rendering". To be precise: before 2.6.5, AbiWord did not always
>> shape composite glyphs correctly. This made AbiWord unusable for
>> languages like Arabic.
>>
>> So, I'd like to ask everyone familiar with such languages to test
>> AbiWord 2.6.5. If you use the Write activity that uses libabiword 2.6.5
>> to test Arabic for example, then make sure to use a font that includes
>> Arabic glyphs. DejaVu Sans does if I remember correctly[1].
>>
>> We improved our rendering based on community feedback only, as none of
>> the AbiWord developers have any knowledge of complex scripts themselves.
>> Ergo:
>>
>>    * We depend on your feedback! *
>>
>> Thanks to all who helped in the process so far.
>>
>> If you find any bugs, the please file a bug report at
>> http://bugzilla.abisource.com. Extra kudos if you can reproduce it
>> reliably  :)
>>
>> Cheers!
>>    Marc
>>
>> [1] Write should default to a proper font based on the locale. It's a
>> known 'bug'.
>
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[J.M. Maurer-2]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 10:31 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:17 PM, J.M. Maurer <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> >> Can you make a .xo file that people can download and install via the
> >> browser on the XO?
> >
> > You don't need an .xo update for this (the current Write version will
> > work just fine), but an libabiword RPM update. I'm not sure how people
> > with an XO would retrieve this, as I was out of the loop for a lil'
> > while and stuff has been changing fast ;)
>
> Well, this is still pretty much the same, people would need to install
> a rpm via the traditional methods and would need root for that.

So "yum -y update libabiword" it is.

  Marc

> There's some chance of bundling the libraries inside the .xo,
> overriding the ones in the system, though haven't tried that myself
> and I'm not sure what it would take.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> > Anyone?
> >
> >  Marc
> >
> >> If you can post that, I think I can get a few Arabic speakers with
> >> Arabic XOs to try it out.
> >
> > That would be very much appreciated!
> >
> >  Marc
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Greg S
> >>
> >> ************
> >>
> >> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:14:44 +0100
> >> From: "J.M. Maurer" <[hidden email]>
> >> Subject: [sugar] AbiWord 2.6.5 pushed, please test!
> >> To: [hidden email]
> >> Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've just updated AbiWord to 2.6.5 in sugar-jhbuild as well as fedora's
> >> OLPC-3 branch. A public release on abisource.com will follow soonish,
> >> but we don't want to keep the kids waiting now, do we?
> >>
> >> The most important change in this release for OLPC is "improved complex
> >> script rendering". To be precise: before 2.6.5, AbiWord did not always
> >> shape composite glyphs correctly. This made AbiWord unusable for
> >> languages like Arabic.
> >>
> >> So, I'd like to ask everyone familiar with such languages to test
> >> AbiWord 2.6.5. If you use the Write activity that uses libabiword 2.6.5
> >> to test Arabic for example, then make sure to use a font that includes
> >> Arabic glyphs. DejaVu Sans does if I remember correctly[1].
> >>
> >> We improved our rendering based on community feedback only, as none of
> >> the AbiWord developers have any knowledge of complex scripts themselves.
> >> Ergo:
> >>
> >>    * We depend on your feedback! *
> >>
> >> Thanks to all who helped in the process so far.
> >>
> >> If you find any bugs, the please file a bug report at
> >> http://bugzilla.abisource.com. Extra kudos if you can reproduce it
> >> reliably  :)
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>    Marc
> >>
> >> [1] Write should default to a proper font based on the locale. It's a
> >> known 'bug'.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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