source: xsoft/office/abiword.xml@ 5b287d4

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY AbiWord-download-http "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-&AbiWord-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-size          "22 MB">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-buildsize     "148 MB">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-time          "1.64 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="AbiWord" xreflabel="AbiWord-&AbiWord-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="AbiWord.html" ?>
<title>AbiWord-&AbiWord-version;</title>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>AbiWord</application></title>

<para>The <application>AbiWord</application> package contains a word 
processing application. This is useful for writing reports, letters and 
other formatted documents.</para>

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&AbiWord-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&AbiWord-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &AbiWord-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
&AbiWord-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&AbiWord-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title><application>AbiWord</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para>
<xref linkend="popt"/>, 
<xref linkend="libglade"/> and 
<ulink url="http://fribidi.sourceforge.net/">FriBidi</ulink>
</para></sect4>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para>
<xref linkend="aspell"/>, 
<xref linkend="gnome-libs"/>, 
<xref linkend="imagemagick"/>, 
<ulink url="http://gucharmap.sourceforge.net/">gucharmap</ulink>, 
<ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/enchant/">Enchant</ulink> and 
<ulink url="http://wvware.sourceforge.net/">wv</ulink>
</para></sect4>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>AbiWord</application></title>

<para>Install <application>AbiWord</application> by running the following 
commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>cd abi &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install &amp;&amp;
cp ../abiword-docs/man/abiword.8 /usr/share/man/man8 &amp;&amp;
cp -rf ../abiword-docs/help /usr/share/doc/abiword</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<para>The <application>AbiWord</application> package contains
<command>abiword</command>, <command>ttfadmin.sh</command> and
<command>ttftool</command>.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>abiword</title>
<para><command>abiword</command> is a symlink to the main
<command>AbiWord</command> executable.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>ttfadmin.sh</title>
<para><command>ttfadmin.sh</command> generates support files
required by <application>AbiWord</application> for each TrueType font in a 
given directory.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>ttftool</title>
<para><command>ttftool</command> is a utility for processing
TrueType fonts.</para></sect3>

</sect2>

</sect1>