Is a Microsoft developer who works on MS Word for the Mac. He has invited me to talk to him. So I have. You can find an ongoing discussion here.
havoc and Eugenia will be interested to read he doesn't actually talk directly to customers or users. He only sees what some committee beneath him thinks he needs to see.
uwog If you're going implement Latex import for anyone you'd better give it to AbiWord first!
MS Word again
I got "Positioned Objects" imported from MS Word last night. The discussion with the Rick got me motivated to look into it. It was much easier than I thought it was going to be thanks to the ongoing efforts of the uber-cool wv hackers. These guys fixed bugs and implemented important new functionality missing from when I tried (and failed) to do this in September last year.
With this in place my wife will able to edit and read the flyers she needs for her MicroBusiness with AbiWord. I can finally get my wife off of OO.o (which she hates) and MS Word (which has brought her to tears in frustration).
Of course this means that next time AbiWord does something wrong it will be all my fault *sigh*.