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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    ascii filter development
From:       "Michael Johnson" <mikej () xnet ! com>
Date:       2000-10-20 16:48:42
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> >   - Starts a new paragraph after a double carriage
> >     return or a double cr/line feed pair.
> 
> As I did in the perl program, you have to do a new paragraph after 
> more then 1 LF, see the slight change ;)
>

That's where I got the idea, from your perl program.
 
> >   - Use a new paragraph for any line containing tabs.
> 
> Hmm, why?

Because a table presentation would be ruined by not starting a new 
paragraph for each line with tabs. Tabs are a common way to 
arrange data in ascii and word processors usually make a mess. 
It's impossible to know what the writer intended so I will just use a 
simple rule and hope it works.

> 
> > > - Auto detection of enumerated lists would be nice. Setting that to the
> > >   right style.
> > > 
> > Harder to do especially in all languages? I think this might identify 
> > lists:
> > 
> >   - A succession of paragraphs (or just lines)
> >     starting with common list identifiers (dashes,
> >     letter o, numerals , roman numerals or single letters
> >     and all lines indented.
> 
> yes, I might suggest you simple start with a series of '-' or 'o'. 
> The filter is really a stream right now. I think that needs to change if
> you want things like: a succession of paragraphs. That stuff is really 
> hard to do as a states machine.. So a slight parsing needs to be done then.

Ok but I think I'll go for arabic numerals also. Yes, the stream input 
will have to change into reading in an entire file at once.

Michael Johnson
mikej@xnet.com

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