From: Virgil Arrington Jr. (virgilarrington@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 19:33:33 EST
Thank you.
Virgil
>From: Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>
>To: "Virgil Arrington Jr." <virgilarrington@hotmail.com>
>CC: AbiWord User List <abiword-user@abisource.com>
>Subject: RE: Abi and RTF standards
>Date: 25 Mar 2002 14:22:41 -0500
>
>On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 14:06, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote:
> > Can I assume then that the bug I filed (2503) concerning Abi not saving
>the
> > font size code to blank lines in RTF files will not be addressed?
>
>It will be addressed. The font code size should be saved to all lines,
>and this really is a bug in the RTF export. For example, this also
>happens:
>
>line 1 (36pt with text)
>line 2 (leave blank, but 36pt)
>line 3 (36pt with text)
>
>save as RTF. reload and you see 36pt 12pt 36pt. yuck. MSWord uses 10pt
>instead of their own 12pt standard for default font size, so they'd see
>36pt 10pt 36pt. The intended result is 36pt 36pt 36pt. This needs to be
>fixed, eventually.
>
>I'm willing to compromise on this, because it's not wrong to save the
>default font size to a line, even if it *should be* understood as 12pt
>and NOT 10pt. Is it a nuisance? Maybe, but it won't hurt us at all to do
>this, and it's not incorrect - it's sub-optimal, though.
>
>Dom
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