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Subject:    Re: I would like to help ...
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-05-22 14:55:37
Message-ID: 200405221655.37496.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 22:34, Calvin Barcley wrote:
> Hi koffice team!
>
> First of all, thank you for the good office!

Thank you!

>
> I would like to help you with the filters, but I dont know if I am able to
> help. I am not a coder yet. I know html quite well, maybe i could help with
> the html filters.

Thank you for considering helping us.

HTML is used in 4 places in KOffice:
- the KPresenter HTML export (koffice/kpresenter/webpresentation.*)
- the KSpread HTML filter (koffice/filters/kspread/html)
- the KWord HTML filters (koffice/filters/kword/html)
- and of course the KOffice's web site: http://www.koffice.org (www/areas/
koffice)

If you want to code for the filters, you need to run KOffice CVS HEAD (which 
can be done either with KDE CVS HEAD or with KDE 3.2.x.)

The KPresenter HTML export was modfied for KOffice 1.3, so I think that it is 
the one that needs less work. It has the disadvantage to be fully integrated 
in KPresenter, making it harder to understand.

The KSpread HTML filter is (nearly) unmodified since long ago, but it too is 
tightly linked to KSpread.

The KWord hTML filters are more independant but that makes that they are 
dependant on the current change from the KWord 1.3 file format to the OASIS 
wordprocessor file format. So it is perhaps not the right time to work on 
them. (But perhaps the right time to learn to know them.) The import filter 
depend on KHTML (Konqueror's HTML browser) making it a little harder, the 
export filter depends on the KWord export filter library.

So perhaps for a beginner working on koffice.org would sound more attractive. 
(Your English seems not bad.) The site uses XHTML 1.0 (which is not too much 
different from HTML4, except lower case tags and attributes, attributes are 
always quoted, you must always close tags (even empty ones like <br /> and 
<hr /> .) The site uses also PHP but for most pages it just represents the 
header and the footer and you would not need to really know PHP (just to 
change the variable for the heading.)

The work needed for koffice.org could be diverse. It can be to create more 
documents for users or try to find outdated information in the pages or 
propably many other things (including, if you would want, making a weekly or 
monthly overview on what happens in KOffice's world.)

>
> I hope to hear from you.
> Calvin Barcley
>
> Sorry for my bad English.

Have a nice day!

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