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:

>> > That paragraph includes 20 separate tasks.  They could be performed
>> > one by one, not necessarily all of them together.  At least some of
>> > them are definitely suitable for GSoC type jobs.  For example, "import
>> > / export RTF files".
>> 
>> Doesn't it require completing a couple of display-engine related
>> features like flowing text around images? Or does import/export imply
>> something else, not _displaying_ and editing RTF document?
>
> Determining what it means and where it ends is IMO part of the job.
> The ability to import RTF files will be a very useful feature even if
> it doesn't support images at first.

Then, it is indeed doable.
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).

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

Some text flowing around the images
....	 ...  with multiple lines of text
   ....	   ....	    . going beside the
  .		.    . image.
  . ....	.     .
    .	   ..  ..     .
    ..	    .....      .
     .........	 ...   .
            ..	    ..

Or text and image displayed on top of each other.

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