[silva-dev] silva2odt -- yet another version

[Dave Kuhlman]

Here is the latest update to silva2odt.  You can find it at:

    http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/silva2odt-1.0c.tar.gz

And, documentation is here:

    http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/silva2odt.html
    http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/silva2odt.txt

Added:

- Additional list styles are now supported.  See also the new list
  styles in the documentation:

      silvastyle-enumlist-number
      silvastyle-enumlist-upperroman
      silvastyle-enumlist-lowerroman
      silvastyle-enumlist-upperalpha
      silvastyle-enumlist-loweralpha
      silvastyle-bulletlist-disc
      silvastyle-bulletlist-square
      silvastyle-bulletlist-circle

- Table of contents are now generated, *but* it does not seem to
  be very useful to me.  This is mostly because during the
  generation of the document, silva2odt cannot calculate the page
  number for each section.  You can overcome this by opening the
  generated document in oowriter, right clicking on the table of
  contents, and selecting "Update Index/Table" from the pop-up
  menu, which fills in the page numbers.  That's not a very
  satisfactory solution when you've generated a large number of
  documents, or even a small number of documents, I suppose.

  Perhaps someday I'll learn how to use PyUNO or the PyUNO bridge
  and will be able to automate updating the table of contents.  I
  don't know whether that would work or not, but it is one
  possibility we can explore.

Fixes:

- Graphics in the styles file (e.g. styles.odt) were not being
  copied to the output .odt file.  Now, they are.  Examples are the
  graphics used for some bullets.

- Text was not being wrapped around images with float-left and
  float-right image alignment modes.  Now, text wraps.

- Lists with types other than plain numbers and plain bullets were
  causing tracebacks.  Now fixed.  This is related to the added
  list styles, described above.

Questions:

- Is there a repository of exported Silva documents available
  someplace?  I'd be able to use that for testing.  My test
  documents (except for the one Marc sent me) are very contrived,
  and they likely fail to cover many test cases.

Dave


-- 
Dave Kuhlman
http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman