Re: 3 Questions: Document Map, Zotero Bibliography, Custom Dictionaries

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Arthur Machlas
> <arthur.machlas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings, I have three questions for the list:
>>
>> 1. Is there a document map plugin, ala MS Word? I have rather large
>> documents formatted with Headings, subheadings, etc, and such a tool
>> would be very useful for navigations purposes as well as to get an
>> easy look at my document. If not, what about some kind of
>> workaround... e.g., a table of contents on page 1 that I just hit
>> ctrl+home to see, then click to navigate. Thoughts?
>>
>
> If you organise your document using numbered section styles you can
> hide text between the headings using the text folding feature in the
> "Bullets and Numbering" dialog. We do not have a documenty map
> feature. It is a good idea that would not be that hard to implement.
>
> If our GSoC student working on GUI features finishes his primary
> project a document map would be a nice additional feature.
>

I'll give that folding text idea a try. I don't use numbered headings,
so I'll have to try and create a numbered heading style that does not
include numbering. Either that or just change the font on the numbers
to white before printing. Thanks for the idea.

>> 2. Zotero bibliography. Plugins are available for Word and OpenOffice,
>> sadly none for abiword. I opened a bug-report (priority wishlist), but
>> it can probably be closed/merged with another bug report at this
>> point. There is a workaround, in that it can format rtf files for you,
>> but you still have to manually create and insert references. So be
>> it...
>>
>
> As far as I can tell Zotero is a propriety application. You would have
> to ask them to write a plugin for abiword. Please contact them and let
> them know how useful it would be to have an abiword plugin.
>

Zotero is open source licensed under the GPLV3. Still, message
received, from both responses.

>> 3. I'd like to have two custom dictionaries, and add words to the
>> spell-check to those or main as needed. Is this possible in abiword?
>>
>> Many thanks for your time and comments
>>
>
> We handle dictionaries in a variety of formats through the use of the
> enchant program. What is the format of your dictionaries? It is
> possible to add words to AbiWord's list of words. Simply choose "add"
> after right clicking on a mis-spelt word.

Yeah, I can add words to the dictionary. I was just wondering if it
was possible to have more than one dictionary active. Say, a Names
dictionary that I can use to add names to, places, etc.

Best,
Arthur
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Received on Tue May 11 03:33:00 2010