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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[613c524f] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[c577a33] | 7 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-download-http
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| 8 | "http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/&AbiWord-version;/source/abiword-&AbiWord-version;.tar.gz">
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[ff6ec19d] | 9 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-download-ftp " ">
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[d19e2c6] | 10 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-md5sum "cb9852ee7245eea41a290e8fe5e2dff2">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-size "10 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-buildsize "484 MB">
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[15114f7] | 13 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-time "6.6 SBU">
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[c577a33] | 14 | <!ENTITY AbiWordDocs-download-http
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| 15 | "http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/&AbiWord-version;/source/abiword-docs-&AbiWord-version;.tar.gz">
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[d19e2c6] | 16 | <!ENTITY AbiWord-minor-version "2.9">
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[613c524f] | 17 | ]>
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| 18 |
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[0b5a693] | 19 | <sect1 id="abiword" xreflabel="AbiWord-&AbiWord-version;">
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[ab49f6cb] | 20 | <?dbhtml filename="AbiWord.html" ?>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect1info>
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| 23 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 24 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 25 | </sect1info>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <title>AbiWord-&AbiWord-version;</title>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <indexterm zone="abiword">
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| 30 | <primary sortas="a-AbiWord">AbiWord</primary>
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| 31 | </indexterm>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 34 | <title>Introduction to AbiWord</title>
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| 35 |
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[c577a33] | 36 | <para>
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| 37 | <application>AbiWord</application> is a word processor. It is useful for
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| 38 | writing reports, letters and other formatted documents.
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| 39 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 40 |
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[99d8124d] | 41 | &lfs72_checked;
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[4b97925] | 42 |
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[ab49f6cb] | 43 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 44 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 45 | <listitem>
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[c577a33] | 46 | <para>
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| 47 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&AbiWord-download-http;"/>
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| 48 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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[c577a33] | 51 | <para>
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| 52 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&AbiWord-download-ftp;"/>
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| 53 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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[c577a33] | 56 | <para>
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| 57 | Download MD5 sum: &AbiWord-md5sum;
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| 58 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 59 | </listitem>
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| 60 | <listitem>
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[c577a33] | 61 | <para>
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| 62 | Download size: &AbiWord-size;
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| 63 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 64 | </listitem>
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| 65 | <listitem>
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[c577a33] | 66 | <para>
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| 67 | Estimated disk space required: &AbiWord-buildsize;
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| 68 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 69 | </listitem>
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| 70 | <listitem>
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[c577a33] | 71 | <para>
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| 72 | Estimated build time: &AbiWord-time;
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| 73 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 74 | </listitem>
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| 75 | </itemizedlist>
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| 76 |
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[15114f7] | 77 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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| 78 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 79 | <listitem>
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[c577a33] | 80 | <para>
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| 81 | Optional Documentation: If running on a gnome desktop, the help menu
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| 82 | will open <application>epiphany</application> at
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| 83 | <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/index.html"/>. If you
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| 84 | wish to install a copy of the en-US, fr-FR and pl-PL HTML
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| 85 | documentation on your machine, download
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| 86 | <ulink url="&AbiWordDocs-download-http;"/> (size 1.4MB md5sum
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[d19e2c6] | 87 | ca0b5bc27d20d542297bffd707b07d63). The local files will not be
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[c577a33] | 88 | automatically referenced if you do not have a fairly complete gnome
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| 89 | desktop (epiphany and yelp on their own are not enough), but you can
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| 90 | still open them in your browser of choice.
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| 91 | </para>
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[15114f7] | 92 | </listitem>
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| 93 | </itemizedlist>
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| 94 |
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[ab49f6cb] | 95 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">AbiWord Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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[c577a33] | 98 | <para role="required">
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[d19e2c6] | 99 | <xref linkend="boost"/>,
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[c577a33] | 100 | <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
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[ebec0ca6] | 101 | <xref linkend="goffice"/>,
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[c577a33] | 102 | <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
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| 103 | <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
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| 104 | <xref linkend="librsvg"/> and
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| 105 | <xref linkend="wv"/>
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| 106 | </para>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 109 | <para role="recommended">
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| 110 | <xref linkend="enchant"/> (for spellchecking)
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| 111 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 112 |
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| 113 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[15114f7] | 114 | <para role="optional">
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[d19e2c6] | 115 | <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/> (for the collab sugar backend),
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| 116 | <xref linkend="empathy"/> and
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| 117 | <xref linkend="telepathy-glib"/> (for the collab telepathy backend),
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| 118 | <xref linkend="gnutls"/> and
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| 119 | <xref linkend="libsoup"/> (for the collab service),
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[c577a33] | 120 | <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/">Link Grammar Parser</ulink>,
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| 121 | <ulink url="http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/">Aiksaurus</ulink>,
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| 122 | <ulink url="http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget/">GtkMathView</ulink>
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| 123 | (requires
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| 124 | <ulink url="http://www.gnome-db.org/">libgnomedb version <1.3.0</ulink>*
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| 125 | which requires
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| 126 | <ulink url="http://www.gnome-db.org/">libgda version <1.3.0</ulink>),
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| 127 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mission-control/files/">libmissioncontrol</ulink>,
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| 128 | <ulink url="http://ftp.imendio.com/pub/imendio/loudmouth/src/">loudmouth</ulink>
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| 129 | (for the collab xmpp backend),
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| 130 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware">libwmf</ulink>,
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| 131 | <ulink url="http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget/">GtkMathView</ulink> (requires
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| 132 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmetadom/">Gnome DOM Bindings</ulink>
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| 133 | which requires
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| 134 | <ulink url="http://gdome2.cs.unibo.it/">gdome2</ulink>),
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| 135 | <ulink url="http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/">libwpd</ulink>,
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| 136 | <ulink url="http://libots.sourceforge.net/">OTS</ulink>, and
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| 137 | <ulink url="http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/psiconv/">Psiconv</ulink>
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| 138 | Some of these are not automatically detected and need to be specified to the
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| 139 | configure script.
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| 140 | </para>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <para>
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| 143 | * The
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| 144 | <application>libgda</application>/<application>libgnomedb</application>
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| 145 | stack required for <application>AbiWord</application> database access may
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| 146 | conflict with the versions used by the <xref linkend="gnumeric"/> database
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| 147 | plugin. Though the libraries themselves pose no conflict, the executables
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| 148 | and support files may overwrite one another. Note that the current
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| 149 | (version 4.1.x) stack does not pose a conflict with any of the previous
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| 150 | versions (but does not support <application>AbiWord</application> database
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| 151 | access. <application>AbiWord</application> requires versions <1.3.0.
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| 152 | </para>
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[38e4f06] | 153 |
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[c577a33] | 154 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 155 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/abiword"/>
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| 156 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 157 | </sect2>
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| 158 |
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| 159 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 160 | <title>Installation of AbiWord</title>
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| 161 |
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[c577a33] | 162 | <para>
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| 163 | Install <application>AbiWord</application> by running the following
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| 164 | commands:
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| 165 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 166 |
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[d19e2c6] | 167 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
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[15114f7] | 168 | make</userinput></screen>
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[10ef3836] | 169 |
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[c577a33] | 170 | <para>
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[d19e2c6] | 171 | This program does not come with a functional test suite.
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[15114f7] | 172 | </para>
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[5bb9ec2] | 173 |
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[c577a33] | 174 | <para>
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| 175 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 176 | </para>
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[5bb9ec2] | 177 |
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[15114f7] | 178 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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[9f37e34] | 179 |
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[c577a33] | 180 | <para>
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[e7fc5cf] | 181 | If you wish to install the local help files, untar and build them first
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[c577a33] | 182 | </para>
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[e7fc5cf] | 183 |
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[15114f7] | 184 | <screen><userinput>tar -xf ../abiword-docs-&AbiWord-version;.tar.gz &&
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[e7fc5cf] | 185 | cd abiword-docs-&AbiWord-version; &&
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| 186 | ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
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| 187 | make</userinput></screen>
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[9f37e34] | 188 |
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[c577a33] | 189 | <para>
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| 190 | and then, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 191 | </para>
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[10ef3836] | 192 |
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[15114f7] | 193 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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[ab49f6cb] | 194 | </sect2>
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| 195 |
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| 196 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 197 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 198 |
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[c577a33] | 199 | <para>
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| 200 | <option>--disable-static</option>: This switch prevents the static library
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| 201 | being built.
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| 202 | </para>
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[15114f7] | 203 |
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[c577a33] | 204 | <para>
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| 205 | <option>--enable-plugins="collab openxml goffice grammar"</option>: Build
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| 206 | some or all of the collab plugins. The openxml plugin enables
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[d19e2c6] | 207 | <application>Abiword</application> to open some .docx files.
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| 208 | The grammar plugin requires
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[c577a33] | 209 | <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/">Link Grammar
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| 210 | Parser</ulink>
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| 211 | </para>
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[77b7e4fe] | 212 | </sect2>
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| 213 |
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| 214 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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[60d0f22] | 215 | <title>Configuring AbiWord</title>
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[77b7e4fe] | 216 |
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| 217 | <sect3 id="abiword-config">
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| 218 | <title>Config File</title>
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| 219 |
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[c577a33] | 220 | <para>
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| 221 | <filename>~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt</filename>
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| 222 | </para>
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[77b7e4fe] | 223 |
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[60d0f22] | 224 | <indexterm zone="abiword abiword-config">
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| 225 | <primary sortas="e-AA.AbiSuite-templates-normal">~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt</primary>
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| 226 | </indexterm>
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[77b7e4fe] | 227 | </sect3>
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| 228 |
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| 229 | <sect3>
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| 230 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 231 |
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[c577a33] | 232 | <para>
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| 233 | Choose the right template for your language and locale from the list
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| 234 | produced by the following command:
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| 235 | </para>
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[77b7e4fe] | 236 |
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[15114f7] | 237 | <screen><userinput>ls /usr/share/abiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;/templates</userinput></screen>
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[77b7e4fe] | 238 |
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[c577a33] | 239 | <para>
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| 240 | Create the folder
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| 241 | <filename class='directory'>~/.AbiSuite/templates</filename> then copy
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| 242 | the <filename>normal.awt</filename> you want into it:
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| 243 | </para>
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[77b7e4fe] | 244 |
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[10ef3836] | 245 | <screen><userinput>install -v -m750 -d ~/.AbiSuite/templates &&
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[15114f7] | 246 | install -v -m640 /usr/share/abiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;/templates/normal.awt-<replaceable><lang></replaceable> \
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[10ef3836] | 247 | ~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt</userinput></screen>
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[77b7e4fe] | 248 |
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[c577a33] | 249 | <para>
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| 250 | Change <replaceable><lang></replaceable> by the above command to
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| 251 | fit the name of the file you want.
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| 252 | </para>
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| 253 |
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| 254 | <para>
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| 255 | If you are using multiple languages, you may need to edit the template
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| 256 | to use a font with greater coverage (e.g. one of the
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| 257 | <ulink url="http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/">DejaVu fonts</ulink>),
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| 258 | because <application>Abiword</application> does not use
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| 259 | <application>fontconfig</application> and can only display glyphs that
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| 260 | are provided in the chosen font.
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| 261 | </para>
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| 262 |
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| 263 | <para>
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| 264 | If you have <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> installed, you should
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| 265 | run the <command>update-desktop-database</command> command to update the
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| 266 | mimeinfo cache and allow the Help system to work.
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| 267 | </para>
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[77b7e4fe] | 268 | </sect3>
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[ab49f6cb] | 269 | </sect2>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 272 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 273 |
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| 274 | <segmentedlist>
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| 275 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 276 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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[24ffa4b5] | 277 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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[ab49f6cb] | 278 |
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| 279 | <seglistitem>
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[15114f7] | 280 | <seg>abiword</seg>
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| 281 | <seg>libabiword-&AbiWord-minor-version; and one or more plugin library
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| 282 | support modules</seg>
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| 283 | <seg>/usr/lib/abiword-&AbiWord-minor-version; and
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| 284 | /usr/share/abiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;</seg>
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[ab49f6cb] | 285 | </seglistitem>
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| 286 | </segmentedlist>
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| 287 |
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| 288 | <variablelist>
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| 289 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 290 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 291 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 292 |
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| 293 | <varlistentry id="abiword-prog">
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| 294 | <term><command>abiword</command></term>
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| 295 | <listitem>
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[c577a33] | 296 | <para>
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| 297 | is the word processor, a wrapper for the functions in
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| 298 | libabiword-&AbiWord-minor-version; - it can also be used on the
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| 299 | command line, see <command>man 1 abiword</command>.
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| 300 | </para>
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[ab49f6cb] | 301 | <indexterm zone="abiword abiword-prog">
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[15114f7] | 302 | <primary sortas="b-abiword">abiword</primary>
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[ab49f6cb] | 303 | </indexterm>
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| 304 | </listitem>
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| 305 | </varlistentry>
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| 306 |
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[15114f7] | 307 | <varlistentry id="libabiword">
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[c577a33] | 308 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libabiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;.so</filename></term>
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[ab49f6cb] | 309 | <listitem>
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[c577a33] | 310 | <para>
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| 311 | provides functions to access MS Word documents.
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| 312 | </para>
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[15114f7] | 313 | <indexterm zone="abiword libabiword">
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[c577a33] | 314 | <primary sortas="c-libabiword">libabiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;.so</primary>
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[ab49f6cb] | 315 | </indexterm>
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| 316 | </listitem>
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| 317 | </varlistentry>
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| 318 | </variablelist>
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| 319 | </sect2>
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[f45b1953] | 320 | </sect1>
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