source: xsoft/office/abiword.xml@ ebec0ca6

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY AbiWord-download-http
  "http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/&AbiWord-version;/source/abiword-&AbiWord-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-md5sum        "cb9852ee7245eea41a290e8fe5e2dff2">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-size          "10 MB">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-buildsize     "484 MB">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-time          "6.6 SBU">
  <!ENTITY AbiWordDocs-download-http
  "http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/&AbiWord-version;/source/abiword-docs-&AbiWord-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY AbiWord-minor-version "2.9">
]>

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

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>AbiWord-&AbiWord-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="abiword">
    <primary sortas="a-AbiWord">AbiWord</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to AbiWord</title>

    <para>
      <application>AbiWord</application> is a word processor. It is useful for
      writing reports, letters and other formatted documents.
    </para>

    &lfs72_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <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 MD5 sum: &AbiWord-md5sum;
        </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>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Optional Documentation: If running on a gnome desktop, the help menu
          will open <application>epiphany</application> at
          <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/index.html"/>. If you
          wish to install a copy of the en-US, fr-FR and pl-PL HTML
          documentation on your machine, download
          <ulink url="&AbiWordDocs-download-http;"/> (size 1.4MB md5sum
          ca0b5bc27d20d542297bffd707b07d63). The local files will not be
          automatically referenced if you do not have a fairly complete gnome
          desktop (epiphany and yelp on their own are not enough), but you can
          still open them in your browser of choice.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">AbiWord Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="boost"/>,
      <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
      <xref linkend="goffice"/>,
      <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
      <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
      <xref linkend="librsvg"/> and
      <xref linkend="wv"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="enchant"/> (for spellchecking)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/> (for the collab sugar backend),
      <xref linkend="empathy"/> and
      <xref linkend="telepathy-glib"/> (for the collab telepathy backend),
      <xref linkend="gnutls"/> and
      <xref linkend="libsoup"/> (for the collab service),
      <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/">Link Grammar Parser</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/">Aiksaurus</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget/">GtkMathView</ulink>
      (requires
      <ulink url="http://www.gnome-db.org/">libgnomedb version &lt;1.3.0</ulink>*
      which requires
      <ulink url="http://www.gnome-db.org/">libgda version &lt;1.3.0</ulink>),
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mission-control/files/">libmissioncontrol</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://ftp.imendio.com/pub/imendio/loudmouth/src/">loudmouth</ulink>
      (for the collab xmpp backend),
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware">libwmf</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget/">GtkMathView</ulink> (requires
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmetadom/">Gnome DOM Bindings</ulink>
      which requires
      <ulink url="http://gdome2.cs.unibo.it/">gdome2</ulink>),
      <ulink url="http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/">libwpd</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://libots.sourceforge.net/">OTS</ulink>, and
      <ulink url="http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/psiconv/">Psiconv</ulink>
      Some of these are not automatically detected and need to be specified to the
      configure script.
    </para>

    <para>
      * The
      <application>libgda</application>/<application>libgnomedb</application>
      stack required for <application>AbiWord</application> database access may
      conflict with the versions used by the <xref linkend="gnumeric"/> database
      plugin. Though the libraries themselves pose no conflict, the executables
      and support files may overwrite one another. Note that the current
      (version 4.1.x) stack does not pose a conflict with any of the previous
      versions (but does not support <application>AbiWord</application> database
      access. <application>AbiWord</application> requires versions &lt;1.3.0.
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/abiword"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of AbiWord</title>

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This program does not come with a functional test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you wish to install the local help files, untar and build them first
    </para>

<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../abiword-docs-&AbiWord-version;.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
cd abiword-docs-&AbiWord-version; &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      and then, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-static</option>: This switch prevents the static library
      being built.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--enable-plugins="collab openxml goffice grammar"</option>: Build
      some or all of the collab plugins. The openxml plugin enables
      <application>Abiword</application> to open some .docx files.
      The grammar plugin requires
      <ulink url="http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/">Link Grammar
      Parser</ulink>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring AbiWord</title>

    <sect3 id="abiword-config">
      <title>Config File</title>

      <para>
        <filename>~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt</filename>
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="abiword abiword-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.AbiSuite-templates-normal">~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt</primary>
      </indexterm>
    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>
        Choose the right template for your language and locale from the list
        produced by the following command:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>ls /usr/share/abiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;/templates</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        Create the folder
        <filename class='directory'>~/.AbiSuite/templates</filename> then copy
        the <filename>normal.awt</filename> you want into it:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>install -v -m750 -d ~/.AbiSuite/templates &amp;&amp;
install -v -m640    /usr/share/abiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;/templates/normal.awt-<replaceable>&lt;lang&gt;</replaceable> \
                    ~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        Change <replaceable>&lt;lang&gt;</replaceable> by the above command to
        fit the name of the file you want.
      </para>

      <para>
        If you are using multiple languages, you may need to edit the template
        to use a font with greater coverage (e.g. one of the
        <ulink url="http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/">DejaVu fonts</ulink>),
        because <application>Abiword</application> does not use
        <application>fontconfig</application> and can only display glyphs that
        are provided in the chosen font.
      </para>

      <para>
        If you have <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> installed, you should
        run the <command>update-desktop-database</command> command to update the
        mimeinfo cache and allow the Help system to work.
      </para>
    </sect3>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>abiword</seg>
        <seg>libabiword-&AbiWord-minor-version; and one or more plugin library
        support modules</seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/abiword-&AbiWord-minor-version; and
        /usr/share/abiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="abiword-prog">
        <term><command>abiword</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the word processor, a wrapper for the functions in
            libabiword-&AbiWord-minor-version; - it can also be used on the
            command line, see <command>man 1 abiword</command>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="abiword abiword-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-abiword">abiword</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libabiword">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libabiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides functions to access MS Word documents.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="abiword libabiword">
            <primary sortas="c-libabiword">libabiword-&AbiWord-minor-version;.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>
</sect1>