AbiWord is a word processor. It is written using Gtk+3 and provides an embeddable widget called AbiWidget that can be loaded into other Gtk+3 applications.

It supports plugins that can extend functionality. These can be used to add more import/export file formats.

Description

• Screenshots of the GUI
• Spell-checking can use aspell, ispell, or enchant
• Menus are described in the manual
• Bidirectional text support
• AbiSource also hosts several related projects.
  • In particular, the Link Grammar natural langage parser.
  • An unmaintained library for pen input: libstylus
• Collaborative editing: AbiCollab

Ideas

• Some project ideas can be found under the Summer of Code pages on the AbiSource wiki.
• Others can be found as enhancement bug reports on the bug tracker.