Re: wv and abiword
Caolan McNamara (Caolan.McNamara@ul.ie)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:21:58 +0100 (IST)
On 16-Jul-99 Justin Bradford wrote:
>> 5) the wv interface to the filter was based sort of on the way the expat
>filter
>> does things, except that you get a charData callback for each individual
>> character in the word file, rather than efficient chunks, slowish i suppose
>but
>> easy and stable for the moment.
>
>This should just be a matter of making a character queue, and then when a
>paragraph or character property changes, we call the callback with the
>queue, right? I'll play around with that.
The only thing to keep an eye on there is that word can have certain pieces
in 8bit and others in 16bit, so you have to keep an eye on a change from one
type to another and flush the buffer if that happens.
C.
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