Subject: Re: RTF import and lists
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 07:17:51 CDT
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Matti Picus wrote:
> I imported the file you sent me (word-listbug.rtf) to abiword, then
> exported it as rtf, then opened it in WinWord2000 on Windows2000. The
> top-level numbering is restarted each time,
> I want: I get
> 1. One 1. One
> (a) One-a (a) One-a
> 2. Two 1. Two
>
> I cannot test what WinWord95 imports since I do not have access to a copy
> of it. I cannot determine if this is a bug in Word2000 RTF importer, or
> our RTF exporter.
>
> Help? Ask the list?
>
Hi Matti,
I was 100% certain this would happen. On list export we don't use
the fancy extensions MS implemented in word 97. I believe that prior to
word 97 the RTF format was fundamentally incapable of handling some of the
fancier lists we can make with abiword.
My suggestion is to not worry about perfect word 95 imports and to use
the word 97 RTF extensions for export. Since we've now got these going for
import I was hoping you would have the energy to implement them for
export.
Is this something you're interested in doing? I think this is the last
really big RTF fix we need to make before 1.0.
There is a bug in bugzilla related to related this. It's in the 1400's ,
1492 I think.
Cheers
Martin
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