--- Paul Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:22 AM 5/14/02 -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > >Here is the list of metadata props that I've > settled on. Others can be > >added if/when needed. > > > >AbiWord (* indicates also present in MSWord) > > > >Author * (this document's author, eg: "Dom > Lachowicz") > >Subject * (this document's subject, eg: "AbiWord > and Bonobo > >Development") > >Title * (this document's title, eg: "How To > Build A Bonobo Control > >from AbiWord") > >Summary * (this document's summary, eg: "Dom goes > through, step by step, > >and shows you how to create a Bonobo wrapper of > AbiWord") > >Orginization (this document's orgnization, eg: > "Appligent" or > >"AbiSource, Inc." > >Keywords * (this document's searchable keywords, > eg: "Bonobo Control > >Embeddable AbiWord HowTo") > >Comments * (this document's comments, eg: "Useful > for beginners and > >advanced programmers alike") > >Role (this document's role in a set of documents, > eg: "Intro: 1 of 3") > > > >Others can be added (#pages, #chars, #lines, > #paragraphs, etc...). > >MSWord does these, but they are only approximates > gathered basically at > >some random point in time, not necessarily on > saving. > > > >I'll start working on a nice dialog for this, > including custom metadata > >properties. I'll get property importing from MSWord > working first, > >though. > > Sweet! > > It'll be great to be able to capture and display > *all* the junk that MSWord > stores. I'm not likely to ever use the feature, but > some people do, and > it'll sure impress the reviewers. ;-)
Can the user define new fields? I have a vague feeling MS Word can do this but can't test. I'm not sure if this is what Dom meant by "Others can be added". Not really sure how useful it would be but would probably help for importing documents with fields Abi doesn't specifically have. Andrew Dunbar. ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
