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

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> If we limit features to current display engine capabilities, simply
>> something like libpandoc will be good enough for basic import/export
>> (not just RTF, but a plethora of other formats as well).
>
> The job, as I see it, is to decode the RTF format and convert its
> typeface information into Emacs faces.

Agree.

>> > ... (And what exactly is a problem
>> > with supporting images, given that Emacs is already capable of
>> > displaying them?)
>> 
>> 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.

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