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Maemo Word Processor aka Abiword 2.2.7

I've ported the old IT2005 Maemo Word Processor, a.k.a. AbiWord 2.2.7, to IT2006. First, please understand that I am myself waiting for aleksandyr's 2.4.5 port. However, my wife insisted I get Abiword to run on her 770 real soon now, and I couldn't even get a self-compiled 2.4.5 to start up. So this is only an interim solution, even if many features work. I would appreciate testing and input and I'll try to fix bugs.

You can get it from my repository, or you can just download the package manually (same URL as repository) and install them from files or with dpkg from xterm. If you get the files manually, you need the abiword package and the libfribidi0 package.

Repository: http://erinye.com/maemo
Distribution: mistral
Component: user

Known problems:

Botched import: Abiword may convert imported documents (especially Word .doc files) to all question marks, or it may convert some characters (e.g. umlauts) to question marks. This is because the creators of the 770 have left out a lot of modules for glibc's iconv. Among those is the module for Windows Latin 1, meaning it's actually rather likely that you're affected because half the world uses this codepage. To solve this, install more-gconv-modules from the same repository. This package installs all of glibc 2.3.5's gconv modules (~5MB) to a separate directory which my Abiword binary knows about. Other porters/developers can use these by setenv("GCONV_PATH", "/usr/lib/more-gconv", 1) or something of the sort.
The menu entry "Bullets and Numbering" crashes the program.
Choose Screen Color will lock the device, requiring a reboot.
Some dialog boxes don't fit on the screen when the virtual keyboard is displayed.
Some text input fields show weird behaviour, e.g. search/replace doesn't allow you to replace the same terms twice, even with different capitalization.
The main text input's virtual keyboard is especially fond of uppercase characters, i.e. it doesn't turn off shift automatically.
Superscript and subscript in the font dialog don't work. However, you can apply both through Menu -> Format -> Text Formatting ->...

Excellent!
This will be great, but currently I can't install it.
App mgr gives 'incompatible pacage'
dpkg has an error.

Any ideas?

Bruce

Did you try in red pill mode?

Works great, Thanks!

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Originally Posted by danny

You can get it from my repository, or you can just download the package manually (same URL as repository) and install them from files or with dpkg from xterm. If you get the files manually, you need the abiword package and the libfribidi0 package.

Can't install, applicationmanager complains about incompatible package when trying to install libfribidi0 package! Suggestions / fixes?

-- Denis

More info on Red Pill Mode, if you're like me and had no clue what he was talking about:

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Applicati...gerRedPillMode

I did not have Red Pill Mode activated at first, so when I added danny's repository info, it didn't show up in the list of new applications. I manually downloaded the two .deb files from his site, and then manually installed the libfribidi0 package first. No problems there.

It wouldn't let me install AbiWord package next--said it was missing two files/libraries/? (because I am stupid, I didn't write down the error message).

That's when I went back and read up on Red Pill Mode and activated that. Once it was activated, when I refreshed my packages in Application Manager, AbiWord showed up (because I'd already added that repository earlier, remember). So then I just installed AbiWord through the Application Manager interface--it downloaded it on its own, ignoring the file I'd already downloaded, and went about installing it.

Oddly, it gave me an error at the end--said it couldn't install AbiWord but didn't give any more information. However the AbiWord is now in my Extras folder, and i was able to launch the program, then open and edit an .rtf document I'd saved from Word.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Scurzuzu

More info on Red Pill Mode, if you're like me and had no clue what he was talking about:

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Applicati...gerRedPillMode

Thanks! Works fine, now.

----Denis

Quote:

Originally Posted by danny

I've ported the old IT2005 Maemo Word Processor, a.k.a. AbiWord 2.2.7, to IT2006. So this is only an interim solution, even if many features work. I would appreciate testing and input and I'll try to fix bugs.

On issue is how to select text, in particular text segments longer than what is visible on the current screen. First, the virtual keyboard pops out and reduces the text window by half... then, if I manage to click and drag to the bottom of the window to select some text, Abiword goes into an uncontrolled slow scroll – which I can't get out of... ended up cancelling the application.

-- Denis

Works great (once I install xterm)!

Thanks

Tom T.

Ugraded to the latest from Nokia this morning, and while trying to reinstall abiword, I'm getting the same error I had before -

Packages missing

libglade2-0(>1:2.3.6)
libice6()|xlibs (>4.1.0)
libsm6()xlibs(>4.1.0)

I have installed xterm - obviously, this ain't it. What am I missing, and where can I get these packages?

Help!!

TIA

T

Hm, installing via the net worked fine.

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Originally Posted by Tom T.

Hm, installing via the net worked fine.

Installing from the repository will pull in dependencies; if you download the packages and install them manually, you need to do this step yourself.

As for fixing those bugs, it's a bit slow going right now because I started a new job this month, and then there's nanowrimo, but I'm still working on it.