Subject: Help: Problem exporting header/footer for a section
From: Matti Picus (matti@picus.org)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 14:23:29 CDT
I claim, and I may be wrong that:
In the RTF standard, and I suspect other document standards as well, the
proper way to write a document section is
<section> = <secfmt>* <hdrftr>? <para>+ (\sect <section>?)
where
<secfmt> is general formatting for the section,
<hdrftr> is all the header/footer stuff, and
<para>+ is one or more paragraphs belonging to the section.
(\sect <section>?) zero or more subsections.
Abiword writes a document by stepping through a vector of pf_Frag in a
pt_PieceTable. Unfortunately, the header/footer stuff is located AFTER
the text content for a section.
The upshot of all this, assuming what I claim is correct, is that AbiWord
outputs RTF where the <hdrftr> follows the <para>+, and is thus not valid
according to the standard. Worse yet, WinWord2000 doesn't care about the
order, but reimporting the document to AbiWord does not work.
Possible solutions:
1. Store header/footer information at the beginning of a section.
2. Fix the importer so it doesn't care about the order.
3. Fix the document exporting routine so it outputs the header/footer first.
Any ideas?
Matti
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