[haiku-development] Re: Styled Text, beyond R5 features

  • From: PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:22:42 +0200

> Definitely useful; the StyledText type is almost useless. It's just the
> question which base format we should use internally.
> Qt uses HTML for its text view AFAIR, but I'm not sure this is a good
> idea. OTOH it's a somewhat simple format compared with ODF.
> In any case, this is a welcomed effort!

It depends on what one want to do : there is an important difference
between style (font, colors), and actual structured text like html
(headers, bullets, ...). odt does both, while html needs css for
syling. Please, try not to mix them :)

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Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy
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