Ascii Import Filter

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 10 December 2010, Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> 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?
> 

I seem to vaguely remember the 40 characters thing from WordPerfect, it might have some ancient pedigree and be very useful, but for me, the empty line option is essential. So having that would be great.


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