--- Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Martin Sevior wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > So solving the WordPad problem means throwing away > > backward compatibility with Word 95 and other > > readers. > > Why? > Isn't it enough if the user tells the library > (manually or otherwise) that the RTF file was > created by WordPad; or that he wishes the > information to be exported into WordPad RTF format?
Hmm for importing, we can probably do some heuristics that'll do pretty good guessing on where the RTF came from. Last time I worked on RTF I was able to spot where it came from visually - but that's a fair while ago now. For exporting we already have RTF and RTF for old apps. Which is already too bad. I'd hate to need to export multiple flavours of RTF but if there were sufficient need it's possible. It'd have to be an optional plugin and pretty low priority. ): > About clipboard manipulations: we (in AbiWord) can > ask the user if the text comes from or goes to > WordPad; and for incoming text - maybe there is > some heuristics which would allow the text to be > automatically identified as coming from WordPad in > 90% of the cases in which it matters? I'd hate to have to prompt users for clipboard use. I'm beginning to think that doing whatever Word 97 and newer do should be our model, even where they are broken ): Any non-MS broken software should probably already be made to work with MS breakage which goes back 5 years. Especially if they like us are of the opinion that MS Word is the 90%+ creator/consumer of RTF. Andrew Dunbar. > Omer > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at > http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > ===== 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
