Write

Description & Goals

Write activity

Summary

The Write activity will serve as the basic text editing application on the laptops. Its simple interface will provide an easy starting point for children, presenting tools that make writing a story, poem or essay simple and straightforward. It will also support basic tools for inserting images, creating tables, and performing basic layout operations as children begin to require some of these features often associated with word processors.

Collaboration

Write will feature collaborative real time editing. Integrated with the mesh network and presence services, this feature will allow kids to work together easily and seamlessly in a text editing environment. This feature is made possible via the Abi Collab research performed by the Abiword development team.

Visual Design

Media

Document	Description
Activity Mockup (2MB) history	Adobe Illustrator file containing mockups for each toolbar

Screenshots

Edit commands	Text editing	Image manipulation
Table adjustment	Format document	View options

Development

Source

http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=projects/write

RPMs

• http://sugar.abisource.com/

Resources

• http://www.snowedin.net/ideas/AbiWord+on+OLPC
• http://www.snowedin.net/summerofcode/

Functional Test

Open the Write activity.

Type some text. Change the font. Ensure that bold and underline work properly.

Save the document.

Close the activity; ensure that it closes properly.