Announcement for snapshot 2

[C. Boemann]

Here is the kind of text I would like (sorry for almost writing it completely 
for "my" area):

For the first snapshot we introduced a new engine to create the text layout. 
This happened only days before the first snapshot, and since then we have 
worked hard to remove as many bugs and making the text layout in general look 
more correct is so many ways that it is impossible to list them all. So just 
try out your favorite text documents, be it .odt, .doc or .docx format, and 
you will see how much closer we have come to perfect display. One improvement 
that will be very noticeable is how much better we handle anchored and inline 
images.

The .doc and .docx file formats are handled by small programs (that we call 
filters), which essentially takes a .doc or .docx file and convert it into an 
.odt file. From then on it's handled just as any other .odt file. From this you 
can see that .doc and .docx files both benefit from improvements in the text 
layout, but also from improvements in the filters. And we are happy to say that 
once again our .doc and .docx filters have improved. For .docx we are far 
better than say LibreOffice already, and for .doc we are getting very close to 
being the best out there too.

Words itself has improved a bit in the user interface department, and our 
focus now shift even more towards improving the user interface for the third 
snapshot. But already now you will find that we have better feedback of 
progress during loading. Also the page and line numbers in the the status bar 
at the bottom of the window now serves the double role of allowing you to go 
to a specific page.

As a teaser we can tell you that insertion of table of contents will be in the 
third snapshot, and it will always be up to date (this is a first in the world 
of word processing as far as we are a aware), so no longer any need to 
manually remember to update it when you make changes to your document. We 
may also have section columns in the next snapshot. These teasers are more to 
show you that if we are looking at such advance features now, it just means 
that the snapshot 2 we are announcing today is actually quite good if we 
should say so ourselves.

There has also been some great work done in making sure that we save the same 
odt that we load without loss of information, when obviously not actively 
modified by the user. This is technically known as round-tripping and is not 
complete yet, but we can for sure say we have improved and our work has also 
pinpointed the problematic areas, so expect to see further improvements moving 
towards snapshot 3.


On Saturday 11 June 2011 23:30:33 Inge Wallin wrote:
> As far as I know, Cyrille has tagged snapshot 2 now.  At least he updated
> the version to 2.3.72.
> 
> This means that the release is imminent, and it's time for me to write a
> new announcement.  So I'd like to get a grasp of what has happened since
> snapshot 1.
> 
> Could you who have created some significant change write a reply to this
> mail (on the ML, of course) and tell me what you did?  This is especially
> important if you have made user visible changes and UI improvements.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 	-Inge
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