Subject: RE: Word importer oddities
From: Caolan McNamara (Caolan.McNamara@ul.ie)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 03:41:56 CST
On 13-Dec-99 Justin Bradford wrote:
>> I suspect there are still problems with the tab SPRMs.
>> I'll dig around a bit.
>
>Ok, there were still a couple of problems with the tab delete ranges and
>when "rebuilding" the tab list (just an extra test, and switched || && in
>some if statements).
>
>I've committed the changes to wv and some minor things to the importer, so
>now tabstops are mostly imported correctly. Robert's example tabstops.doc
>displays correctly, for instance.
>
>However, there are still a couple of problems that I don't yet understand.
>
>1) I get two negative tabstops. You can see them out around -1 inches.
>2) I don't get the very last tabstop.
>3) I get 9 tabstops, while I should only get 8.
>
>I pretty sure that these are all related, and my guess is that we're
>seeing undocumented variations on the Word format. We're probably supposed
>to subtract one from the add list, and start the array offset up one, or
>something equally braindead.
>
>I'll experiment with it more later.
Id like to take a look, if you have a sample document that triggers this
odd behavior.
C.
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