Re: silva2odt latest snap-shot

Dave,
I'll post a couple answers for you. Eric, who built the Silva xml
import/export, is 'missing in action' right now but should be in next
week.

2007/7/4, Dave Kuhlman <[email protected]>:
> silva2odt is still incomplete, but here is a snap-shot.  The new
> version is available at my Web site.  Note minor version change:
>
>     http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/silva2odt-1.0b.tar.gz
>
> Added features:
>
> - There is now some support for tables.  I've tried to support
>   nested tables, but I do not know how to create them in Kupu, so I
>   have not tested it.

Nested tables are not supported in Kupu, so don't worry about it. In
fact, if you paste a nested table Kupu will move it to the top level.

> - There is minimal support for images.  But, we probably need some
>   control over wrapping text around the image etc.  I don't know
>   how to do that in Kupu.

There are two css classes which do that, 'float-left' and
'float-right', with corresponding alignment options in Kupu's image
toolbox.

> A problem -- If a piece of text has *more* than one of bold,
> italic, and underline style, silva2odt only attaches one of those
> attributes.  So, for example, suppose you have five words
> underlined and, in the middle of those five words, there are two
> italic words.  Then, Kupu will show five words underlined, two of
> which will be both underlined and italic.  But, silva2odt will not
> make any words both underlined and italic.  That is because
> oowriter does not do cascading styles.  I could add the ability to
> create a new style, on the fly (for example, a style that is both
> bold and italic), and use that.  But, doing so would defeat the
> goal of using predefined styles so that the user can change the
> characteristics/look of a style and have the altered style
> reflected throughout the document.
>
> So I'll need to work on that.

Sounds problematic. Creating a style on the fly defeats the purpose,
yes. If it's a limitation of oowriter, I guess we'll have to document
it.

Thanks for this work,
Kit

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