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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: new KWord
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-11-06 19:34:42
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On Monday 06 November 2000 19:08, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 06 November 2000 14:57, John Califf wrote:
> > I'm a little confused about where these changes are being made.  In the
> > main cvs branch version, or another branch?  Do they require a
> > prerelease of Qt 3 or do they work with the current Qt 2.2.1 ?
>
> Look at the kde-cvs mailing-list or archives.
> This development is done in a separate branch.
> Apparently it works with Qt 2.2.1, but I guess some of the fixes to in Qt's
> devel version :)
>
> > I guess an easy way to find out is to update again from the main branch. 
> > If they aren't in the main branch, when will these changes be merged into
> > it?
>
> When they're ready (duh).
>
> > Slightly off topic, but I was very surprised to discover when looking at
> > the export filters that the one for kwd -> html is empty - it just
> > generates an empty html document.
>
> Huh. This used to work.
> And it still does, for me. Hmm, it puts a digit before the plain text
> though.
>
> But anyway. Read below:
> > The import filter html -> kwd works
> > fine.  This export filter is very important because html really should
> > be the standard document format across all the different word
> > processors,  even though it lacks what's needed for printing and dtp.
> > But is more widely used.  The page divisions have to be handled
> > differently or ignored, though, for html unless using the dtp style in
> > which each kwd page should be a separate html document.  I consider html
> > filters more important than the MS/Ole filters.
>
> Nobody said it wasn't important. Feel free to improve it or find a
> maintainer. I'd like to port it to the structure that was recently put in
> place for the ascii and docbook filters, but I can't find the time to do
> that.

BTW: The new engine supports internally HTML import/export. So we will get 
that for free...

-- 
Reggie (reggie@trolltech.com)
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