1.9.0 Changelog

Johan Björk

Convert 21 QNX dialogs to PhAB (Photon Application Builder).

Besnik Bleta

Albanian localisation work.

Francesco Cheratzu

Sardinian localisation work.

Sardinian dictionary.

Mikey Cooper

Bug fixes: 1921

Gery Deloge

Various BeOS bug fixes.

Jeremy Davis

Bug fixes: 4774

Andrew Dunbar

Added UTLANG_RTL and UTLANG_VERTICAL to the appropriate languages, to go with Tomas Frydrych's BiDi brackets work.

Bug fixes: 4784

Hubert Figuiere

Deleted the Carbon files from the tree.

Frank Franklin

Extensive work on the way properties are attached to tables, allowing sensible inheritance and, potentially, styling and editing.

Bumped wv version number.

Changed 'Insert an Footnote' to 'Insert a footnote'.

Tomas Frydrych

Work towards bug 2742.

Implemented direction markers for BiDi text.

Implemented font size increase and decrease functions.

Many BiDi fixes.

Added a tag marking language direction.

Added a method for handling parentheses more intuitively in mixed-direction text.

Keybindings for font increase and decrease and for language direction marking.

Fixed drawing of direction markers when show paragraphs is turned on.

bug fixes: 2811

Daniel Glassey

Work on cross-compiling on mingw.

Marco Innocenti

Italian localisation work.

Fix to dumpstrings.pl to hide commented-out strings.

Egmont Koblingen

Bug fixes: 4782

William Lachance

Bug fixes: 4894

Dom Lachowicz

Removed the menu bar from the Nautilus view.

Upgraded the OAF server file.

Fixed a race condition which was crashing Abi on launch in gdb.

Implemented style locking, which allows you to forbid formatting alterations other than by setting the style.

Bug fixes: 1427, 4740, 4741, 4753, 4755, 4891

Jordi Mas

Win32 Format Table dialog.

Centered the Win32 bullets and numbering and headers/footers dialog boxes.

Fixed a memory leak in merge cells.

Changed combo boxes to radio buttons in the Win32 page number dialog.

Format Footnotes dialog for Win32.

Win32 build fix.

Fixes to Win32 Format Table dialog.

Bug fixes: 4651, 4742 (partial), 4793, 4885

Marc Maurer

Gladification of Format Table dialog.

Hacked the WordPerfect importer to import OLE wrapped WordPerfect documents.

Enabled hinting in the Field Dialog tree views.

Michael Pritchett

Win32 build fixes arising from Martin Sevior's fix of bug 4717.

Win32 layout fixes.

Bug fixes: 4832

Martin Sevior

Changed AbiWidget:: to AbiWidget-- in property names to avoid confusion due to automatic bonobo conversions.

Fixed lots of bugs and crashes concerning endnotes and tables, and speeded up typing and editing in tables and in docs with footnotes.

Made AbiWord function as a Nautilus view.

Fixed a gtk-only compile error.

Fixed a crash on right-click in bonobo.

Fixed regressions from his commits.

Added code to only breaksections if the height of the formatted paragraph changes, which significantly speeds up typing near the beginning of big documents.

Fix the backspace bug.

Disabled a number of table functions which will not be finished before 2.0.

Fixed a number of problems with cell selections and clearing.

Added a UI description for the nautilus view.

Select cell/row/table now work from the menu.

Work on the nautilus view.

Bug fixes: 3324, 4400, 4546, 4756, 4760, 4717, 4795, 4798, 4799, 4811, 4849, 4855, 4856

Valentine Sinitsyn

Fix to Russian strings file.

Build fixes for using mingw on Win32. (Mingw being free software, this means that anyone can now compile on Win32.)

Patch to allow 'make distribution' on Win32 using mingw.

Jesper Skov

Big fixes: 3926, 4812