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kovidgoyal · 09-04-2008, 05:38 PM

Its a format converter. A format converter has to basically handle lots of cases. There is no way a converter can do that in ~200 lines of code for a format as complex as .doc

It probably just strips all but the simplest of markup.

I program for a hobby (though my job occasionally requires a lot of programming). I program primarily in C and python, though I've used over a dozen different languages over the years.

09-04-2008, 05:38 PM	#10
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,856 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Its a format converter. A format converter has to basically handle lots of cases. There is no way a converter can do that in ~200 lines of code for a format as complex as .doc It probably just strips all but the simplest of markup. I program for a hobby (though my job occasionally requires a lot of programming). I program primarily in C and python, though I've used over a dozen different languages over the years.