Subject: Re: [PATCH] Word 2 import (provisional)
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 15:19:41 CDT
I'll apply this patch after checking it out a bit more. I also have set up
wvware.sourceforge.net as of 5 minutes ago. The site still needs lots of
tweaking, so be gentle. You may notice that Caolan and I gave lots of
"props" to this list and Abiword in general :) Anyone interested in the
project should sign up on the mailing lists and forums. I'll only be
maintaining the wv tree there from henceforth. Feel free to post wv patches
to this mailing list as I'll still be heavily involved with Abiword.
Abiword folks with suffecient CVS privileges and CVS knowledge may or may
not want to set up a virtual cvs link to wvware's anoncvs, or make a
shell-script to run from cron or something like that. I'm planning to keep
Makefile.abi in the tree proper. I'll apply patches sent to abiword-dev to
wvware's tree, but I won't apply to your wv tree or back-port from wvware.
Is this acceptable?
Dom
>From: Martin Vermeer <mv@liisa.pp.fi>
>To: abiword-dev@abisource.com, patches@abisource.com
>CC: Dom Lachowicz <cinamod@hotmail.com>
>Subject: [PATCH] Word 2 import (provisional)
>Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 23:02:38 -0200
>
>Hi,
>
>Now that CVS is back up -- or at least communicating at more that 50 bytes
>a second -- I finally got made a patch. The code added allows wv to import
>an MS Word 2 document, and output it in legible form. It appears (based
>on what I have seen, half a dozen docs from all over the world) that
>Word 2 docs are quite a lot simpler structured, with a linear text layout,
>no OLE.
>
>Of course nothing is perfect, and this outputs the text only in text form,
>without "properties" or even basic formatting such as paragraphs (<p> or
>\par). Doing that requires getting the FIB right (does anybody know the
>FIB layout for Word 2?) and understanding what is happening on lines
>188-399 of decode_simple.c (not very legible to an amateur :-( )
>
>Any help or info would be appreciated.
>
>As this patch adds functionality that was competely lacking earlier, it
>should IMHO be applied after (necessary) regression testing. I don't
>think there are very many Word 2 users any more, but still this may be
>good to have.
>
>--
>Martin Vermeer mv@liisa.pp.fi
>:wq
>
><< patch >>
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