[Fwd: Re: New OpenDocument plugin]

Hi Daniel,
          Congratulations on this significant milestone!

Thanks and well done :-)

Martin

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 15:03 -0300, Daniel d'Andrada Tenório de Carvalho
wrote:
> 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

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Hi Daniel,
          Congratulations on this significant milestone!

Thanks and well done :-)

Martin

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 15:03 -0300, Daniel d'Andrada Tenório de Carvalho
wrote:
> 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 Mon Nov 28 00:48:40 2005