RE: Abi and RTF standards

From: Virgil Arrington Jr. (virgilarrington@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 14:04:43 EST

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    From Martin,

    >I just spent some very valuable time looking at that yesterday. I could
    >not reproduce the bug on MS Word 2000. The blank lines had 12 pt height.

    That's strange. I also use Word 2000 and get 10 point default font on blank
    lines. Whether 10 or 12, however, is not the issue since I *intend* 13
    point. The point is that Abi saves *no* font size code to blank lines
    meaning that it does not control the font size of blank lines in files
    exported to RTF. Rather, the font size of the blank lines is controlled by
    the program reading the file, rather than Abi that wrote the file.

    I've attached a file that I believe clearly demonstrates the problem and
    illustrates the different way Word treats font size codes.

    >I
    >also spent some valuable time yesterday looking at why the page margins
    >weren't reproduced. I made some progress and reported it. I'll finish that
    >work today.

    Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    >Since you are very keen to get your bugs fixed you should at least
    >subscribe to abiword-dev so you can actually see all the progress that is
    >being made.

    I'll do that. I had subscribed about a year ago, but unsubscribed when I
    realized I didn't understand 99% of my e-mail. Thanks for the tip.

    Virgil

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