[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Formal GSoC Proposal [Draft]: Basic tables support for KWord
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2009-03-27 7:19:22
Message-ID: 200903270819.22778.boud () valdyas ! org
[Download RAW message or body]

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
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]