Subject: Re: RTF Importer/Exporter
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 22:55:32 CDT
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Matti Picus wrote:
> Please see my comments interspersed with yours
>
> >You wrote:
> >We really MUST have 100% lossless RTF import/export for 1.0.
> >What's left?
> >1. Finish import of Word >97 lists. There are still issues with displaying
> >delimeters and sublists on different word levels.
>
> Can you provide more detail? Are there test documents that fail, or bugs
> related to this item?
Yes.
1. If a user just changes the Word 97 level without nesting ie.
1. fred here
a. next line
Abiword will import this as
1. fred here
1.a next line
We have to decipher the levelnumber and leveltext keywords to decide if a
list should be nested or simply have it's left margin moved inwards.
Next the font of the all the bullet type lists is not being set correctly.
This results in a bullet style word 97 list appearing as a "spot" rather
than a bullet.
the pntextb and pntexta keyword equivalents in word 97 lists are being
ignored for now for now so if you put "(" and ")" around
(a) First line
It will be imported as
a First line.
Fixing these is mostly a matter of getting all the details right and
coming up with work-arounds to match our list structures.
Cheers
Martin
>
> >2. Implement styles import/export. This should be easier now that we allow
> >edittable builtin styles. All used styles should be exported to RTF.
>
> I looked at importing styles, and found the line
> TODO Ignore stylesheet as ABIWord doesn't do styles (at the moment)
> Questions on implementation:
> A. Does another importer successfully import styles?
> B. Help me with the function argument
> pt_PieceTable::appendStyle(char ** attributes)
> where attributes is a name,value stirng pairing:
> name - Style name that appears in dialog box
> type - ??? "P" seems to be common
> basedon - style parent
> followedby - next paragraph, had the value "Current Settings"
> props - ??? what are valid values, is there
> documentation? I understand the
> DTD is out of date...
>
> >3. DO Word 97 list export and multi-level list export to RTF < Word 97.
> >4. Do RTF header export.
> >5. I think the Lang keyword is not implemented yet.
>
> This applies a language characterisitc to a run. What is the AbiWord
> equivalent?
>
>
> >If endnotes are finished they should be exported/imported too.
>
> Is there an interface to use endnotes as word-type comments with tool-tips?
> Is there an alternative method to view endnote values when the cursor is on
> an endnote?
>
> Thanks,
> Matti
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