Re: What is GNOME office?

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, James Henstridge wrote:

> 
> Yes they do.  They are called styles in MS Word.  Anyone who uses a WP for
> significant sized documents will set up styles rather than bold, italic,
> etc.  You could preserve a lot of the structure in a docbook document by
> mapping the elements to styles of the same name.
> 
> It may not be quite as flexible as a full blown SGML editor, but it is
> false to say that word processors don't support semantic markup.
> 

Abi has an excellent backend support for styles. We don't yet have a GUI
for easy editing and creation of styles. This is something we plan to
implement soon.

Martin