AbiWord has essentially no documentation worthy of the name. There is a little bit in the doc directory of the source code, but it is mostly sketchy and badly out of date. The AbiWord DTD is a laughing stock. Unless you can make sense of object-oriented code (as I cannot), there is simply no authoritative source of information. So these are some guesses, based on what version 2.4.6 (the most recent port to my platform) actually seems to do. These observations I call Conjured Documentation because it is entirely reverse engineered by observing the behavior of my copy of AbiWord. Because my understanding is limited and because I know nothing about AbiWord on other platforms, if you do anything based on my observations that trashes AbiWord, destroys your baby pictures, gives you bad breath, or causes your computer to catch fire, I cannot be responsible.
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