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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: New ASCII Import Filter
From:       Thomas <zander () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2000-11-21 16:50:28
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> 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
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