From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Sep 21 2002 - 08:03:15 EDT
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Omer Zak <omerz@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> > Andrew Dunbar wrote in length about the awful
> > situation of RTF support in various word prcessors
> > and in AbiWord in particular.
>
I would just like to pointout that this would not solve our problem with
wordpad and lists. Wordpad is fundamentally BROKEN. It screws up perfectly
valid RTF.
The spec says: "readers that recognize the \*\listtable keyword should
ignore \*\pn keywords" WordPad puts in bullet or list number for both
these contructs.
So we could trivially solve this problem by NOT exporting the "\*\pn"
construts but this would mean Word 95 and OO would not read in our lists
as lists. Word 97 and Word 2000 does this.
So solving the WordPad problem means throwing away backward compatibility
with Word 95 and other readers.
Having a library would not solve this either.
Regarding Andrew's proposal, I'm happy to donate my parts of the Abi RTF
import/export of RTF to a (l)GPL'd library but I'm not particularly
inclined to spend much time on it.
I have enough trouble working out how RTF should be imported into AbiWord
without trying to solve the general problem of getting RTF
imported/exported into any Word Processor.
Cheers
Martin Sevior
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