From: Omer Zak (omerz@actcom.co.il)
Date: Sat Sep 21 2002 - 10:37:00 EDT
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Martin Sevior wrote:
> 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.
Why?
Isn't it enough if the user tells the library (manually or otherwise) that
the RTF file was created by WordPad; or that he wishes the information to
be exported into WordPad RTF format?
About clipboard manipulations: we (in AbiWord) can ask the user if the
text comes from or goes to WordPad; and for incoming text - maybe there is
some heuristics which would allow the text to be automatically identified
as coming from WordPad in 90% of the cases in which it matters?
--- Omer
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