Re: RTF import/export emacs (was: New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes))

[Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>]

On 8/18/2024 7:35 AM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>>> Some text flowing around the images
>>>   ...
>>> Or text and image displayed on top of each other.
>>
>> We aren't afraid of that in EWW and shr.el, are we?  We could use the
>> same technique here.
> 
> You mean slicing? This may work for flowing text around, but it will not
> work for overlaying images and text.

EWW/shr.el don't actually use slicing for flowing text, as far as I 
know. I suppose that could work, but I'd be worried about 
miscalculations causing the slices to be misaligned (for example if we 
tried to support the CSS 'float: right' property).

In short, EWW/shr.el's strategy for flowing text around images is to 
simply ignore it (unless I'm misunderstanding part of that code).

For RTF support, I don't know if Emacs needs to support all (or even 
most) features of RTF to still be useful. If Emacs showed images on 
their own line no matter what the RTF document requests, that's still a 
big improvement over not being able to view RTF documents at all.