[Speakers] Automation via Abiword

[Robert G. Brown]

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:25:23 -0500, Brock Inglehart wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:10 -1000, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>
>> This article seems to provide som e really cool automation stuff; if it
>> works it might make an excellent topic for a presentation -
>> http://www.advogato.org/person/msevior/diary.html?start=65
>> 
>> It looks allot easier than automation with OOo.
>
>
>But in the real world of creating word processing documents by users,
>most of us are not command line folks.  We are mouse point and shoot
>folks.  Who would use it?

The intent of this facility is to manipulate the documents overall,
not use the software and documents to interactively modify content.

You might not need this, but others do; they are just as much part of
the "Real world" as any other needs, and they improve the acceptance of
the product overall.

For example, if we want to take a whole bunch (hundreds, for example) of
documents and convert them to HTML, does anyone want to sit there and
hit LOAD and SAVE AS (and all the other mouseclicks that go with) a few
hundred times to accomplish this? It is way better to write a script
that will run through this, and use the package as a document converter.

That's one simple example, and maybe a lot of people don't need this, but
those that need it will need it A LOT. 

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