From koffice-devel Fri Mar 27 07:19:22 2009 From: Boudewijn Rempt Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:19:22 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Formal GSoC Proposal [Draft]: Basic tables support for KWord Message-Id: <200903270819.22778.boud () valdyas ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=123813825612753 On Friday 27 March 2009, cricketc@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday 26 March 2009 14:24:32 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > >Then there are some nasty differences between the row/col > > handling in .doc and odf -- and we really should be able to sensibly > > support .doc tables, too. > > Are there actual feature differences between .doc and odf (ie. doc features > that can't be done in odf)? If not, code for loading tables should only > have to deal with odf tables, because the filter is responsible for > translating the .doc structure into odf format, right? That's the nice > thing about the filter - means loading code only has to deal with odf... Yes -- according to Shaheed, the problem is that Word tables have no fixed columns, all you get is a (variable) number of rows with different widths, which cannot reliably be expressed in ODF. -- Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel