Subject: Re: clarifications on changing how fields work
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 03:26:08 CST
At 08:11 AM 3/14/00 GMT, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>Just for the sake of completeness a microsoft word field has three
>delimiters i.e.
>begin "fielddata" middle "resultdata" end
>
>field data being the field string, and resultdata being the last
>resultant string or graphic of the field. This allows readers and
>importers that cannot parse or understand the field to at least output
>the last known result so that it looks ok. The above abiword approach
>would allow a similiar effect so it looks like a robust mechanism.
Cool. I'd hoped that the two mechanisms would be approximately equivalent.
Thanks for the confirmation.
Paul
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