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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: List support in KWord
From:       David Faure <dfaure () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2003-01-24 10:39:30
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On Friday 24 January 2003 11:29, Clarence Dang wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:47 pm, David Faure wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 January 2003 12:29, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > On Thursday 23 January 2003 11:03, David Faure wrote:
> > > (...)
> > >
> > > > > The patch I committed doesn't do this but at least it's a start.  Of
> > > > > course a major benefit is that now the lists output by filters would
> > > > > match those in KWord.  So any changes in KWord would be passed on to
> > > > > the filters :)  No more code duplication...this would mean that the
> > > > > 100+ lines in asciiexport for handling counters could be changed to
> > > > > about 3 (which I'll be doing soon plus adding table support etc.)
> > > >
> > > > Yes ... well, it's mostly useful for asciiexport only, though.
> > >
> > > and DocBook and HTML.
> >
> > Surely those have a better way to represent bullets than "*".
> Yes, but it's going to be a real pain to figure out what to display (in more 
> complex cases with nested lists) with the current COUNTER element (it just 
> doesn't provide any easy-to-use attribute other than "text" - it doesn't even 
> tell you if the list implicitly restarts at this point such as when the depth 
> is reduced with "List Numbering", nor the actual numbers in something like 
> 2.4.1).  Maybe providing full information like with the 2.4.1 example you 
> gave would be the key but at the moment, I'm just happy with the "text" 
> attribute despite its limitations.  After experimenting with numbered lists 
> inside nested bulleted lists inside numbered lists etc., one can see how 
> difficult the current situation is with COUNTER :(

I'm going to find a way for the 2.4.1 example ... but my point was that for a
simple bullet list (easily recognizable in <COUNTER>, from its type),
the HTML export can surely use <li>.

- -- 
David Faure -- faure@kde.org, dfaure@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice-1.2.1 is available - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1/
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