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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Microsoft Word filter for KWord
From:       Werner Trobin <wtrobin () carinthia ! com>
Date:       2000-03-13 16:06:23
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Shaheed Haque wrote:
> 
> Joel, and others,
> 
> Sorry I've been a bit quiet recently (due to work, modem and DIY problems;
> don't ask!).
> 
> Anyway, in the next couple of days, I'll send Werner some updated code; this
> should make it into the tree a few days after that (at the moment, he seems
> to be a bit busy playing with guns and stuff :-)).

Geee... I really don't like that army stuff :(
Anyway - I'm looking forward to your diffs!

> ===============
> Progress to date (i.e. code ready to give to Werner as indicated above):
> 
> 1. I tidied the HTML word spec, and using awk/sed generated parsing code for
> all but a few structures. I have made some corrections/enhacements to the
> HTML on the way (e.g.
> koffice/filters/olefilters/winword97/mswordgenerated.h, .cc)
> 
> 2. Started an abstraction layer intended to be KOffice-independant, and to
> provide simplified access to the low-level structures from step 1 (e.g.
> .../msword.h,.cc).
> 
> 3. Wrote enough code in step 2 to be able to identify an extract each
> paragraph in some small word97 documents. word95 documents are currently
> affected by a OLE parser problem which Werner may have fixed, but I have not
> tried to pick up (newer version of msword.h,.cc).

I'll look at that today, I promise :) If I can fix that beast I'll send you
the files.

> 4. Most of the code is there to find the stylesheet and paragraph formatting
> info, but this is not debugged, and also code has to be written to convert
> this stuff into XML.
> =============
> 
> Once this set of code is there, the direction of the design will be clearer
> (to me, if to noone else!), and at that point it should be easier to divide
> up work. Help will be useful in many areas; write to me directly if
> interested (Joel, I'll write to you tonight).
> 
> Some areas of documentation/background reading:
> 
> 1. Code pointers above.
> 
> 2. Werner's filter architecture postings at: http://koffice.kde.org/filters/

Stay tuned, as this will be updated really soon(tm)

> 
> 3. Its also worth taking a look at www.wvware.com. Consider reading the
> abiword mailing lists - they seem to have done a lot with the wv codebase.
> 

Werner

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