Subject: Re: template design notes
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2001 - 17:31:49 CST
At 03:12 PM 3/8/01 -0800, I wrote:
>#4 gets triggered by saving any file *as* a template.  At minimum, this 
>means subclassing the .abw exporter to also save things with .awt suffixes.  
>
>  related issue
>  -------------
>  There are folks who insist that AbiWord should *not* rely on suffixes.  
>  Does this mean that we should internally set a property in the file format 
>  to indicate that a particular document is a template?  If so, which wins 
>  when there's a conflict?  (I suspect that something similar 
Whoops.  Lost the rest of that sentence.  It should read:  
  I suspect that something similar is what's behind the maddening behavior 
  Bill's seeing -- some underlying "I'm a template" bit inside the file 
  format is being honored in their impexp code.  
Paul
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