Re: [libreoffice-users] The RTF export and import stuff

Hi :)

Err people do realise that the aim of text-editors is completely different from 
the aims of word-processors right?  


A word-processor shows how the formatting looks but does not show up all the 
special characters whereas a text-editor shows characters but does not show the 
effect they may have on formatting.  Text-editors are great for progamming and 
stuff but not great for reports with pie-charts and pictures.  Writer can save 
stuff as a text-document but may have extra codes in there that might not be 
obvious.  Writer is an excellent word-processor.

Regards from
Tom :)





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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 22 December, 2010 20:35:31
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] The RTF export and import stuff

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:29:40PM +0530, shirish ??????????????? 
<shirishag75@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, nice Miklos. Its not everyday that a developer comes up and
> shares his work with us users. It would be nice if you would blog
> about it sometimes, maybe tag it so somebody like me who doesn't have
> any programming knowledge (and doesn't want to) can come and see what
> progress is being made in that.

What you linked is already the list of posts tagged as 'libreoffice'. :)

> On the other side, what would you say would be a good strategy to push
> other text-editors to use the spec. or come close to it. What they
> need to look at, I can atleast ask in abiword, gedit and other
> open-source text-editors even if its just as a wishlist bug. Would
> need that info.

That may sounds too obvious: most of the spec is clear, so what a
developer of a text editor can do is really 1) read a part of the spec
2) as a reference implementation, you can have a look at what MSO does,
as long as the blackbox model it provides helps you.

> Lastly, I have just subscribed to the nomail version of the list.
> While the traffic is not much now, in the coming days I do feel its
> going to be big and I don't want to be distracted by other
> discussions. As already said not a programmer so many things which
> would be discussed may be those as well as other wishlist stuff.

If you have a specific document in odt format which is not exported
properly in RTF and it is in MSO, then you are welcome to report it
following http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport and as my free
time permits, I can try to fix it up.

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