cochrane / stichwoerter Goto Github PK

For some non-obvious reason, doc export sometimes fails even when HTML export succeeds. This failure is silent; a file with a reasonable size is generated, but neither Word 2011 nor TextEdit nor Quicklook can open it properly.

To solve this, I've decided to implement my own very limited Office Open XML support. That way I can fix problems on my own, and I know I'm using something that will be supported in the future.

That's because the initial users were all german speakers, and I was lazy. An english translation shouldn't be too difficult; I'm just lazy.

It should be possible to collapse gap-free ranges. Something like:

641, 642 -> 642f
305, 306, 307 -> 305ff
18, 19, 20, 21, 22 -> 18-22

To better separate the areas, I was asked to automatically insert empty table rows before every new letter (except 'a', I suppose). This should probably be an optional setting.

Since Office XML is already in there, ODF might be useful, too. But none of the users of this app seem to have any use for that right now, so this is not a priority.

Compressing the docx files could result in significantly reduced file size (even though my file size is already a lot less than Word's). That would require adding compression to ZIPArchive.