Subject: Re: Blocker? RTF export seemingly broken
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 20:02:50 CDT
I confirm this.
rtf export is broken by my use of
\*\listtagN
where N is a number. I didn't realize this construct is against RTF rules.
I'll commit a fix to use...
{\*\listtagN}
instead.
Sorry.
I suggest we abort this release and focus now on 0.9.4.1 or 0.9.5?
Opinions?
Martin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Mantas (monte on IRC) has reported the following behavior, and I want some
> more people to check it out.
>
> RTF exported from 0.9.4 isn't useful by:
>
> WordPad
> OpenOffice
> MSWord2k
> AbiWord < 0.9.4
>
> Where as RTF exported from 0.9.2 *is* useful by:
>
> WordPad
> MSWord
> WordPad
> AbiWord
>
> In short, the only program capable of importing AbiWord 0.9.4's RTF is AbiWord
> 0.9.4
>
> Ok, I know that OpenOffice's RTF importer is just plain broken. But what about
> the rest?
>
> Attached is Mantas' statement and a few documents.
>
> Dom
>
> --------------
>
> 3 documents: one 'good' version of rtf (created with 0.9.2), one 'bad'
> (created with 0.9.4) and .abw
>
> Description:
>
> good version works fine with Wordpad and MS Word 2000 on Win2k, bad does not
> work (I see no characters), but StarOffice and OpenOffice opens 'good' and
> 'bad' documents identicaly, but there are problems with lithuanian characters
> - few characters are disapearing :
>
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