From koffice-devel Tue Nov 21 16:50:28 2000 From: Thomas Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:50:28 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: New ASCII Import Filter X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=97482553428571 > Michael Johnson wrote: > > > Some time ago Thomas Zander suggested a new ASCII import filter for Kword. I > > have coded up a filter and it is far enough along to submit to the CVS. > > <...> > > > > The filter does mark up ascii files which can be edited more easily than > > with the old filter. Good, but I made a disastrous mistake in using Kword's > > table feature to mark up tabular information in the ascii file. I can't get > > that to work right at all and I will have to revise the filter in a future > > issue. Maybe I don't understand the table feature or maybe it is broken. > > Wolf-Michael Bolle seems to have run into the same issue. I will probably > > try tab stops if I can get that feature to work. > > > > My next endeavor will be a LaTeX export filter. I will make use of QDOM and > > any other QT tool that seems to applicable. > > well in the meantime I got exporting tables done. R?diger Koch was nice enough > to send me a few KWord files that contain tables so I could complete the > filter. So, if you have any questions about the representation of tables in > XML, I might have some of the answers. > > On a different note: The filter is also able to handle embedded image files, > now. I haven't gotten around checking the stuff in, though. Please do ;) -- Thomas Zander zander@earthling.net The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new _______________________________________________ Koffice-devel mailing list Koffice-devel@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel