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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KWord's ASCII import filter
From:       Clarence Dang <CTRL_CD () bigpond ! com>
Date:       2001-12-05 10:59:33
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Hi Nicolas!

I'm actually quite surprised by the quality of ASCII filters (import and
export).
They are marked as "good" but they have a few problems.  This is
probably because the ASCII import and export filters are written by
completely different people...
It would be good if someone who had worked on one of the ASCII filters,
worked on the other one so that users can finally import an ASCII
document and export it back out, without changing its contents.
Hence, I'm pleased to see that you want to work on the import filter,
being the author of the export filter.

I've haven't experienced any of the problems you describe (except with
carriage returns).
But instead, have found other problems: I imported kwordin.txt
(attached) and it did it incorrectly as described in the file.  Upon
exporting (using KOffice 1.1), I got kwordout.txt, which almost doesn't
even resemble kwordin.txt.  Please fix these problems (no, I'm not
volunteering :)).

Thankyou!
Clarence

On 2/12/2001, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> I have looked at the code of KWord's ASCII import filter and found that it 
> could be improved a little. If nobody is working on this, I will do it slowly.
> 
> A few problems, I have found:
> - Carriage Returns are not recognised (but the export filter can generate 
> them on demand of the user.)
> - only locale encoding (the export filter can also do UTF-8)
> - a paragraph ends with an empty line (however, the export filter uses a line 
> per paragraph)
> - use of static arrays despite QT offering dynamic arrays
> 
> All these problems are even more annoying, as KWord forces itself as default 
> ASCII viewer for Konqueror (yes, I know that you can change it...)
> 
> At first, I would like to add a dialog for the encoding and the strategy to 
> end a paragraph. However, there is a new problem. Will users accept that they 
> have a dialog each time that they click on a text file in Konqueror?
> 
> (Is there any way for the filter to know that it is called for/by Konqueror 
> to suppress the dialog?)
> 
> Have a nice day/evening/night!
["kwordin.txt" (text/plain)]

Try importing this file and then exporting it in ASCII.
You will notice that 1. the stars disappear and 2. extra blank lines are added.
I wrote this file in KWrite in Linux but for some reason, KWord is ignoring newlines.
And there is far too much linespacing between the lines, starting with the asteriks.
These are bugs!

* Counters
* in
* KWord
* are
* driving
* me
* insane
* last line of file!

["kwordout.txt" (text/plain)]

Try importing this file and then exporting it in ASCII. You will notice that 1. the \
stars disappear and 2. extra blank lines are added. I wrote this file in KWrite in \
Linux but for some reason, KWord is ignoring newlines. And there is far too much \
linespacing between the lines, starting with the asteriks. These are bugs!

Counters
in
KWord
are
driving
me
insane
last line of file!


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