AbiWord distributes plugins in the source tarball but they don’t seem to be getting built on nix. I had a look at the config.log but it didn’t seem to complain about anything missing.

On Debian:

$ abiword –plugin AbiCommand
46 plugins loaded
AbiWord command line plugin: Type “quit” to exit
AbiWord:>
$ ls /usr/lib/abiword-2.6/plugins/

AbiWord libAbiCollab.so libAbiGimp.so libAbiJPEG.so libAbiNroff.so libAbiPalmDoc.so libAbiT602.so libAbiWPG.so
libAbiAikSaurus.so libAbiCommand.so libAbiGoogle.so libAbiKWord.so libAbiOpenDocument.so libAbiPassepartout.so libAbiURLDict.so libAbiXHTML.so
libAbiApplix.so libAbiDocBook.so libAbiGrammar.so libAbiLaTeX.so libAbiOpenWriter.so libAbiPDF.so libAbiWikipedia.so libAbiXSLFO.so
libAbiBabelfish.so libAbiEML.so libAbiHancom.so libAbiMathView.so libAbiOpenXML.so libAbiRSVG.so libAbiWMF.so libLoadBindings.so
libAbiBMP.so libAbiFreeTranslation.so libAbiHRText.so libAbiMIF.so libAbiOPML.so libAbiScriptHappy.so libAbiWML.so libPresentation.so
libAbiClarisWorks.so libAbiGdict.so libAbiISCII.so libAbiMSWrite.so libAbiOTS.so libAbiSDW.so libAbiWordPerfect.so

On NixOS:

$ abiword –plugin AbiCommand
Plugin AbiCommand not found or loaded
$ ls /nix/store/jwflcn60vjyykk7dv6g1yqyzxmgmj6fz-abiword-2.8.6/lib/abiword-2.8/plugins/
opendocument.la  opendocument.so
$ cat /tmp/nix-build-nddca1ll1s6ay3v7a8904kmz8mvds3a8-abiword-2.8.6.drv-0/abiword-2.8.6/plugin-list.m4

garble mathview loadbindings opml xslfo ots bmp iscii sdw babelfish paint command latex pdf wikipedia gda collab hrtext openxml wpg goffice rsvg wmf kword mif wml aiksaurus s5 freetranslation gdict mht applix grammar t602 docbook google eml wordperfect psion hancom presentation clarisworks pdb urldict openwriter mswrite gimp opendocument passepartoutSubmitted by Cillian de Róiste on 4 January 2011 at 19:20