Hello Chris, Le mercredi 16 juin 2010 à 13:02 -0700, Chris Carpenter a écrit : > I would like to volunteer my services to help improve the RTF support for > openoffice.org writer. However, I am a fairly new programmer and would > require some guidance getting into the code base, and also some guidance on > how to work with a large project such as this one.
Then you should join me and vmiklos on a Gsoc task. Miklos is currently implementing a new export filter for RTF and I'm mentoring him. You could get some help there. We're often hanging on the #go-oo IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. > The first question is probably: Why would I want to improve RTF support? > Well, my college uses exclusively Microsoft Word for essentianally > everything, and doesn't support anything else well. The only concession they > will make is to allow submissions in, and send documents in, RTF format. > Since RTF support isn't the best right now, i'd like to see if I can manage > to improve it, even if only a little bit. I had a discussion about why I'd > want to do this here: > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=31596. > > If anyone has the time to point me in the right direction, it would be > appreciated. You could start implementing an RTF tokenizer for the new writerfilter import filter. This would help us create a brand new RTF import filter sharing a lot of code with .docx import and a future .doc import filter (those 3 formats are really similar). I could help you getting started on that as well. You can contact me privately or on IRC (my nick is cbosdonnat) to help you actually start coding. Regards, -- Cédric Bosdonnat Go-oo hacker http://go-oo.org OOo Eclipse Integration developer http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
