Re: A small M$-Word .doc import problem


Subject: Re: A small M$-Word .doc import problem
From: Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 10:11:26 CST


At 11:21 AM 2/10/00 +0100, Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote:
>I made a try on Abiword 0.7.8 for FreeBSD. It worked mostly fine.
>
>On import of M$-Word-Documents I found a small problem.
>The text seemed to contain a special mark for the en- or em-dash
>(I don't know, because I don't know about said program's internals).
>This was not imported. And a similar problem was caused by signs which
>in my interpretation could be hyphen marks.

This is bug #578,
http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=578

There is a lot of infrastructure work going on right now to handle symbols.
 Once an "Insert Symbol" dialog shows up, AbiWord will then be able to
handle all these symbols, and we can get these import problems fixed.

Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist



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