gnomeweb-wml r5783 - trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8

[mortenw svn gnome org]

Author: mortenw
Date: Tue Jan 29 01:52:34 2008
New Revision: 5783
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?rev=5783&view=rev

Log:
More blurb.  Fix layout of contributors.



Modified:
   trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml
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--- trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml	Tue Jan 29 01:52:34 2008
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@
 
 <h1>Gnumeric 1.8 is Here!</h1>
 <p>The Gnumeric Team is pleased to announce the availability of Gnumeric
-version 1.8.0.  This is the first publicly announced version of the new
+version 1.8.1.  This is the first publicly announced version of the new
 stable 1.8 series.</p>
 
 <p>We have worked hard at producing the best available spreadsheet for a wide
 range of applications from simple numerical scratch pad, financial analytical
 tool, to scientific number cruncher.</p>
 
-<p>It has been two years since the release of the 1.6
+<p>It has been a little more than two years since the release of the 1.6
 series and many things have been improved:</p>
 
 <h3>Improved Graphs</h3>
@@ -71,9 +71,21 @@
 lines fully.</p>
 
 <h3>New Print Engine</h3>
-<p>Gnumeric now uses the Gtk+ library's printing engine.</p>
+<p>Gnumeric now uses the Gtk+ library's printing engine.  This fixes a
+number of printing problems caused by the unmaintained Gnome Print
+library.  That being said, it appears that Gtk Print (and/or lower
+level libraries) still has major issues on Win32.</p>
+
+<h3>Improved Function Compatibility</h3>
+<p>In order to facilitate spreadsheet sharing for users of Gnumeric
+with users of other spreadsheets, we strive to make the sheet
+functions sematically equivalent to their Excel counterparts, insofar
+Excel has such counterparts.  However, we do not replicate bugs,
+inaccuracies, or arbitrary limits on for example argument sizes.
+To this end, we have improved and automated our test suite.</p>
 
 <h3>Improved and Extended File Format Support:</h3>
+We have improved our support for various file formats:
 <div id="fileformats">
 <table class="contributors">
   <thead>
@@ -162,20 +174,21 @@
     <tr><td>sum1</td><td>QA Sadist</td></tr>
   </tbody>
 </table>
-Oliver Burnett-Hall:
-GÃtz Waschk:
-Hib Eris:
-Nils Kanning:
-Eduardo Lima:
-Joseph Pingenot:
-Shixin Zeng:
-Harun Vos:
-Ivan, Y.C. Wong:
-Klokan Pridal:
-Luciano Miguel Wolf:
-Nick Lamb:
-Philo Vivero:
-</div>
+<p>Other recent contributors include:
+Oliver Burnett-Hall,
+GÃtz Waschk,
+Hib Eris,
+Nils Kanning,
+Eduardo Lima,
+Joseph Pingenot,
+Shixin Zeng,
+Harun Vos,
+Wong, Ivan Y. C.,
+Klokan Pridal,
+Luciano Miguel Wolf,
+Nick Lamb,
+and
+Philo Vivero.</p></div>
 <p>Gnumeric relies heavily on other projects:
 the <a href="http://pcre.org/";>Perl Compatible Regular Expression</a> engine,
 <a href="http://www.r-project.org/";>The R Project</a>,