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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    MSWrite's strange linespacing (was KWord's strange linespacing)
From:       "Clarence Dang" <CTRL_CD () bigpond ! com>
Date:       2001-12-16 9:39:06
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Hello,

Ok, I was wrong :)
It's MSWrite that's doing the "strange linespacing" (hence, I've changed the
subject line :)).
As Nicolas Goutte pointed out, MSWord doesn't have this "strange
linespacing", nor does AbiWord, nor KWord for that matter.

So the question is: How do I write my filter such that MSWrite's linespacing
is maintained on conversion to KWord?
The KWord DTD doesn't let me specify the other type (MSwrite's) of leading.

I notice that MSWord's import filter for MSWrite maintains the linespacing
by specifying "At least 18pt" instead of "1.5 lines", for instance.  I know
very little about DTP so that is quite meaningless to me :).

So how do I fix my import filter?

Thanks!
Clarence

On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:57, Clarence Dang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems that KWord's linespacing is different to everyone else's (MS)
> implementation of linespacing.  If you look at the attachment, which shows
> KWord on the left and MSWrite on the right (running in Wine :), you can
see
> that Microsoft aligns their text to the bottom of the linespacing, while
> KWord aligns it to the top.
>
> This is a problem because this makes my filter (mswrite) not perfect!!! :)
> i.e. in the attachment, both sides are supposed to look exactly the same
> since they're from the same document (if the filter was perfect, of
course).
>
> So why does KWord align the text in "<LINESPACING>" different to MS?  Some
> (other) MSWord/MS-whatever user will probably soon notice and complain if
> this isn't changed... :)



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