Ascii Import Filter

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 10 December 2010, Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm just rewriting the ascii import filter to be more performant. The new 
> version is about twice as fast as the old version which still converted to the 
> old kword format. The new filter instead convers to odf.
> 
> There is a small thing in the old filter that I basically like to remove. The 
> old ascii filter has 3 options to detect end of paragraph:
> 
> 1. As is: at the end of the line
> 2. Sentence: if the end of line is the end of a sentence
> 3. Old method: If the line is empty or has less then 40 characters.
> 
> I think the last option was there to just keep some kind of backward 
> compatibility. I would like to not port that to the new filter. The porting is 
> not much work but I would like to remove this option. 
> 
> What do you think should it be removed?

Well, I I'm not sure about the the 40 characters limit, but
the empty line is probably the only useful option actually! 
It's the one I use when I have to convert prose written in 
an editor or a gutenberg document to a wordprocessing 
document because there paragraphs are separated by a newline. 

Take a look at the previous paragraph: onlye the empty line
method will correctly convert those five lines into a paragraph.

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