I saw your issue about tabbed layout in Writer not being preserved when the document is saved in HTML format: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118968
You are correct. Writer does not preserve layout produced by tabbing when it saves a document as HTML. You are also correct that Microsoft Office Word does preserve such layout, and that layout (along with many other features of the original document) is also recovered when such an HTML document is re-opened in Microsoft Office Word. You might consider reporting this as a feature request, rather than as a defect. I am not hopeful, however. The Microsoft Word approach is very specific to Microsoft Office (being used to preserve Excel and PowerPoint layouts too). Although an OpenOffice Writer will open the Word-produced .HTM file with the tabbed-layout preserved, it doesn't recover it as tabbed-layout. The successful recovery of the layout by Word depends on extensive Microsoft Office custom features grafted into the HTML as specially-recognized [X]HTML comments. These are specific to Office and not covered by the HTML specifications. It is likely unreasonable to expect OpenOffice to attempt to use the Microsoft-specific approach here. It would certainly require extensive work on the part of volunteer OpenOffice developers. I don't doubt that undertaking such a task will be found objectionable on several grounds, including the impact on the size of the resulting HTML document. - Dennis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
