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## What's New

Version 0.7.9

User Interface

- Insert Symbol dialog (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
- Word Count dialog (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt)
- Overwrite Mode added (Alexey Sinutin)
- Set Page Margins from ruler (Bruce Pearson)
- Insert Field dialog (Henrik Berg)-- not fully enabled due to pending changes in the underlying fields implementation.

Localizations

- Updates for Swedish (Henrik Berg), Italian (Marco Innocenti), Finnish (Jarmo Karvonen), Indonesian (Tim Allen), Danish (Birger Langkjer), Portuguse (Rui Silva and Giovanni dos Reis Nunes), Hungarian (Tamas Decsi) and Polish (Eutanazy Sercxemulo).

Bug Fixes

- The infamous libpng bug (Justin Bradford and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt)
- Underline/superscript fix (Martin Sevior)
- View Ruler consistency (Kevin Vajk)
- RTF CR/LF handing (Harald Fernengel)
- Various Other Bugs: #522 (sterwill@sourcegear.com), #10 and #811 (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt), #302 (Aaron Lehmann), #352 (Henrik Berg), #432 and #776 (Martin Sevior), #637 (Andy Richardson), #651 (Matt Kraai), #770 (Matthew Allen), #782 (Danny Faught), #788 and #789 (Joaquin Cuenca Abela)

Other

- Updated XML parser to version 1.1 (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt)
- Mac port beginning (Bryan Prusha)
- Lots of Gnome dialogs (John Tunison) -- no Gnome binaries for 0.7.9 but will be available in the next release
- AbiWord for QNX (thomasf@qnx.com)
- Command line conversions (Joaquin Cuenca Abela) -- for a complete list, type AbiWord -help from a command prompt
- More ports: SGI IRIX 6.x (drk@sgi.com), GTK version on Win32 via gcc and cygwin (Tom Newton), NetBSD (Johnny C. Lam)