--- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Martin.
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar > wrote: > > > --- Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew Dunbar wrote in length about the awful > > > situation of RTF support in various word > > > prcessors and in AbiWord in particular. > > > > I would just like to pointout that this would not > solve our problem with wordpad and lists. Wordpad is > fundamentally BROKEN. It screws up perfectly valid > RTF. > > The spec says: "readers that recognize the > \*\listtable keyword should ignore \*\pn keywords" > WordPad puts in bullet or list number for both > these contructs. Thanks for the technical details. This is what I like to see on a developer list (: > So we could trivially solve this problem by NOT > exporting the "\*\pn" construts but this would mean > Word 95 and OO would not read in our lists > as lists. Word 97 and Word 2000 does this. I'm not sure I understand 100%. Are you saying that Word 97/2K don't export the "\*\pn" construts - and that they create RTF that Word 95 cannot read in correctly? This would mean a fundamental incompatibility between Word 95 RTF and Word 97/2K RTF. (I'm ignoring the standard for the moment). > So solving the WordPad problem means throwing away > backward compatibility with Word 95 and other > readers. If newer versions of Word have already done this anyway then I'm not sure that choosing "standard/word95" RTF over "word97/2k" RTF is necessarily the only way to proceed. > Having a library would not solve this either. Well it wouldn't solve the MS Word problems but it at least has the potential to solve the problems with other readers - at least open source ones. Otherwise we're pretty much letting MS force problems onto us and oo software in general. > Regarding Andrew's proposal, I'm happy to donate my > parts of the Abi RTF import/export of RTF to a (l) > GPL'd library but I'm not particularly inclined to > spend much time on it. If it works out and I get a machine soon I'll do the conversion myself. > I have enough trouble working out how RTF should be > imported into AbiWord without trying to solve the > general problem of getting RTF imported/exported > into any Word Processor. It would just be a separation layer between parsing and triggering the import logic. The code shouldn't have to change very much in the initial conversion. Andrew. > Cheers > > Martin Sevior > > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl 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
