How well can we represent AW document in XHTML? Are there any significant features that we cannot save correctly?
The reason I ask is that RTF is not best for passing bidi documents to Word. When Word imports RTF document, its bidi algorithm depends solely on the \ltrch and \rtlch tokens. The problem is that bidi properties of text cannot be described adequately by mere two character types. To create the RTF file we have to convert all the characters the visual direction of which is context-sensitive to \ltrch or \rtlch, which requires making assumptions about the final layout of the text that cannot be granted (e.g., the end reader might have a slightly different font installed than the author and that might result in different linebreaking). In contrast, when Word opens an XHTML document, it uses a Unicode-based algorithm to do the layout. From this point of view it would be much more suitable format to use to pass docs to Word. Tomas
