New OpenDocument plugin

Hi everyone,

I've just commited the new OpenDocument plugin. It's new because its
entire file structure was changed to accommodate the code for exporting
.odt files.

The import part, apart from being moved from OpenDocument/xp/OD_* to
OpenDocument/imp/xp/ODi_*, it remains basically the same.

The export part, being brand new code (actually around 30% of the
pre-existent export code from rob and dom is spreaded around its files),
is located at OpenDocument/exp/xp/ODe_*.

As a by-product of those changes is the OpenDocument/common/xp
directory, that today holds only a single file, that is the entry point
of the plugin, registering its filters and that of things.

Here is a list of what the exporter can handle:
    * meta data
    * paragraph and character styles
    * tables
    * lists
    * images (a great deal of code inherited from rob and dom)
    * textboxes (positioning for page-anchored textboxes is not ok)
    * headers and footers
    * endnotes and footnotes (it does not export its properties/detais,
like if it should use a "1" or a roman "i")

Now the plugin is lacking its Windows makefiles. That's because I was
not able build up the ming/msys environment properly so that I could
create and test its new makefiles. uwog said earlier today (on IRC) that
he will make the Windows makefiles for the plugin. Thanks uwog!

My next steps should include fixing header/footer code on the importer
and adding table of contents support on the exporter.

Best Regards,
Daniel d'Andrada T. de Carvalho
Received on Fri Nov 25 19:07:03 2005