Ascii Import Filter

[Thorsten Zachmann]

On Friday, December 10, 2010 09:40:49 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> 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.

Yeah the empty line makes sense. Should I add a option for thead instead of 3?

Thorsten