Also, I have some questions for the Abisource people.
What are these Abiword properties?
'font-stretch'
'font-variant'
Will 'background-color', when implemented, apply to a paragraph or a
character run?
Would a thing called the gutter be the same as 'space-after-section'?
I'm currently assuming this in the importer, but it doesn't seem to do
anything, good or bad, on my test docs.
Now, some unsupported properties compared to Word:
character properties:
highlight (background?) color for text (is this 'background-color')
double-strike
engraved
embossed
shadowed
hidden
outlined
caps/small caps/lower case ?
spacing following each character?
also, can font points sizes have decimals (specifically xx.5)?
hyphenation rules
kerning distance
text animations (such as Las Vegas lights, background blink, sparkle
text, marching ants, marching _red_ ants, and shimmer [these are
the options Word has])
shading
border
more underlining options (double, dashed, dotted, etc)
super/subscripts
paragraph properties:
start paragraph on new page (page break before)
- this is easily faked
absolute positioning of paragraphs
side-by-side paragraph?
font alignment (hanging, centered, roman, variable, auto)?
vertical
backward
rotate font?
max. width, independent of margin or column settings (why?)
borders
shading
drop caps?
section properties:
break codes (new column, new page, even page, odd page)?
title page
page number format (arabic, roman, letter)?
various page number things, including positioning, resetting,
starting page number, etc.
chapter number separator for page numbers
vertical justification code
page orientation (portrait, landscape)
page borders
header positioning
irregular width columns
If you think any of these can be expressed with current Abiword
functionality, let me know.
Justin