AbiWord hanging in Linux

I'm using AbiWord 2.2.8 under RedHat 9.  I wanted to insert a symbol (A 
flat, which I couldn't find.) but when I tried to use the "alphabet" 
labled "cursor," AbiWord hung.  I had to use Ctrl-Alt-2 to get to 
another consol, use ps -A and kill -9 as root to clear it.  This 
happened twice.  Anybody know anything about it?
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Unwrapping Text

How to I unwrap paragraphs of importing text?

Thank you.

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Re: Unwrapping Text

Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote:
> 
> How to I unwrap paragraphs of importing text?

Here is a simple minded perl script that might be useful.  Not that there 
aren't already a million other things out there ...
   Jim

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

#depara.pl in out reads "in" and attempts to remove line terminators from the
#text so that it can be inserted into stuff like mozilla and will be
#reformatted accordingly.  The rules are pretty much the old ones - if the
#next line is nonexistent or blank or starts with a blank, we put an end of
#line.  Otherwise we join it with a blank, or two blanks if the current
#chomped line ends in any member of a punctuation list.  Blank lines are
#preserved.

open(IN,"<$ARGV[0]") or die "no such input file as $ARGV[0]";
open(OUT,">$ARGV[1]") or die "can't open <$ARGV[1]>";

$in = 0;  $out = 0;
$endsent = "[.;:?]\$";
$line = "";
$any = 0;
foreach (<IN>) {
  ++$in;
  chomp;

Re[2]: Unwrapping Text

> Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: 
>> How to I unwrap paragraphs of importing text? 

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005, Jim Hettmer apparently wrote: 
> Here is a simple minded perl script that might be useful.  Not that there 
> aren't already a million other things out there ... 

I am guessing the OP's question was really meant to be 
AbiWord specific and tightly related to the following 
reasonable question: how can I ask AbiWord to import 
blank-line separated text paragraphs as AbiWord paragraphs?

This is a very reasonable request because blank-line 
separated paragraphs are a very common text format
and implementation of this import option is presumably 
trivial.  Suggesting preprocessing options is of course 
helpful on a case by case basis, but what is really needed 
is AbiWord recognition of a common format.

Closely related: it would be nice if AbiWord would import 
(and export!) reStructuredText.
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

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Re[2]: Unwrapping Text

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Alan G Isaac wrote:

...

> Closely related: it would be nice if AbiWord would import
> (and export!) reStructuredText.
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

Abiword already had a "Human Readable Text" exporter which used
/interesting/ *markup* and was similar to what is called
_reStrucutredText_ and there is at least one bug report already filed on
the subject.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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we have a new gateway with MS XP media 2005 OS.
installed abiword 2.2.9 using admin acct,
and it runs fine.
then login as limited user,
and tried to run abiword and we get error,
"cannot find libabiword.dll.  try to reinstall"
would not reinstall from limited user acct.
how to fix?  the point is to run abiword in
limited acct for safety reasons.
so far, the limited users in this version of
XP are proving to be problematic.
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Problem with Printing

I have two hard drives of 40g on the first is an install of Slackware 10.1, 
on the second there used to be half the disk with a second installation of 
Slackware 10.1 as a back up to the first disk, and a 20g space on which 
FreeBSD, Debian, etc were tried out. As the next version of Slackware is 
forthcoming I cleared the second disk and re-installed Slackware 10.1 on 
it to act as a back up while I got used to the new version when I can 
install it on the first disk.

However whilst in all other respects the two disks have identical 
installations of Slackware 10.1 the second one will not print from 
AbiWord, the first does, and I can see no difference between the two, both 
use CUPS installed via the KDE Printer installation. Is this a problem 
with AbiWord, KDE, or Slackware? 
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Re: Problem with Printing

John Seago <johnseago <at> two-ravens.org.uk> wrote on 08/09/2005, 10:50:45
AM:
> 
> I have two hard drives of 40g on the first is an install of Slackware 10.1, 
> on the second there used to be half the disk with a second installation of 
> Slackware 10.1 as a back up to the first disk, and a 20g space on which 
> FreeBSD, Debian, etc were tried out. As the next version of Slackware is 
> forthcoming I cleared the second disk and re-installed Slackware 10.1 on 
> it to act as a back up while I got used to the new version when I can 
> install it on the first disk.
> 
> However whilst in all other respects the two disks have identical 
> installations of Slackware 10.1 the second one will not print from 
> AbiWord, the first does, and I can see no difference between the two, both 
> use CUPS installed via the KDE Printer installation. Is this a problem 
> with AbiWord, KDE, or Slackware? 
> -- 
> John Seago
> GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org
> AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

Please let us know what version of AbiWord you are using on the two
installations, and where you got the package (for example, is it Pat's
standard package that comes with the distribution, a package from
linuxpackages.net, or a custom-built package from source?).  Also, if
you could tell us if it's the GNOME or GTK+ version, that would be
useful.  You can determine this in 2.2.x and 2.0.x by looking at the
toolbar or file menu.  If there is a print preview option, you have the
GNOME version.  (You do not neccessarily have to run GNOME as your

Abiword build problem

Hello all,

I'm having a problem getting abiword to build under the latest version of 
Cygwin.  When the windows sources are being built, I get an error stating that 
it can't find cl.

I'm running the latest version (as of 8/8/05) of Cygwin, Windows XP SP2, 
abiword 2.2.9 downloaded from the abiword site.  The fribidi, enchant, and 
gucharmap are from their respective web sites.

Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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