Abiword

[Tom`]

I noticed a while ago that the version of Abiword in the repo did not have Office Open XML support compiled in (so Abiword is unable to understand .docx files). So I decided to download the source and try compiling it myself.


When I was doing this, I noticed several other plugins that could be helpful (specifically 'mathview' which provides an equation editor, and 'latex' which provides LaTeX support).


However, I found that I was unable to specify more than one option in the format specified here (--enable-plugins="foo bar baz") - the configure script doesn't seem to like spaces there, and specifying each plugin separately doesn't work either (the configure script runs, but only shows one of the plugins as being enabled).


Is there any way to enable multiple plugins? I was able to produce a PND with OOXML support, so I guess my original objective has been fulfilled, but I'd like some of those other features too.

 

[Tom`]

I could probably do that without even having to install it (since I'm given to understand that using opkg directly is Not Recommended at this time), but I think I'm just having a problem with autotools (there has to be a way to specify the plugins to the configure script correctly, I'm just not sure how).

 

[badcloud]

Has anyone noticed the "Recently Used" list in the open dialog does not get updated?

I'm constantly opening a doc file and can never see it at the top of said list

 

[ekianjo]

Why don't you use LibreOffice instead? This ABiword is outdated.

 

[badcloud]

Why don't you use LibreOffice instead? This ABiword is outdated.

Thanks for the reply

I use abiword because it's faster, but yeah, libre should be more current

 

[ekianjo]

I use abiword because it's faster, but yeah, libre should be more current

Abiword is only fast to start up, after you don't see differences once you are in Libreoffice anyway. So I'd say go with Libreoffice all the way