I claim, and I may be wrong that: In the RTF standard, and I suspect other document standards as well, the proper way to write a document section is <section> = <secfmt>* <hdrftr>? <para>+ (\sect <section>?) where <secfmt> is general formatting for the section, <hdrftr> is all the header/footer stuff, and <para>+ is one or more paragraphs belonging to the section. (\sect <section>?) zero or more subsections.
Abiword writes a document by stepping through a vector of pf_Frag in a pt_PieceTable. Unfortunately, the header/footer stuff is located AFTER the text content for a section. The upshot of all this, assuming what I claim is correct, is that AbiWord outputs RTF where the <hdrftr> follows the <para>+, and is thus not valid according to the standard. Worse yet, WinWord2000 doesn't care about the order, but reimporting the document to AbiWord does not work. Possible solutions: 1. Store header/footer information at the beginning of a section. 2. Fix the importer so it doesn't care about the order. 3. Fix the document exporting routine so it outputs the header/footer first. Any ideas? Matti
