https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002
--- Comment #18 from James E. LaBarre <[email protected]> ---
I would just like to put a comment/clarification here, although I suspect there
will be others who understand the technical factors far better than me.
My understanding of the WordPerfect file format, and/or the way the application
handled managing a document being edited, is that the file is a "streaming
data" format (if that is the correct term). A code/format gets activated, and
is in effect until it is deactivated. Formatting codes could be nested as
well. The idea of the "reveal codes" function was/is to show those embedded
formatting codes within the stream.
Seems to me the WP formatting concept is basically like a "markup language",
and from what I remember of using WP, they looked very much like HTML and XML.
And since the OpenDocument format is also a streaming data format, it would
seem to logically lend itself to a reveal codes editor.
This is, of course, presuming that WP was in fact using a stream of data for
their document format, and not using some long-since-lost hack to make it look
that way.
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