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odfstudio/xmloff
László Németh 62aecba14c tdf#38159 cui sw offapi xmloff: add paragraph composer
Balance word spacing within the consecutive lines
to get uniform grayness and less rivers for better
readability, enabled by the new paragraph property

com::sun::star::text::ParaComposer

and the following developments:

* Add Paragraph Composer checkbox on Alignment pane of the
  paragraph formatting dialog window (not default yet);

* Implement paragraph composer: big word spacing of a
  line is decreased by shifting the last word from the
  previous line, only if the word spacing is better, than
  before, and the increased word spacing in the previous
  line doesn't exceed the Maximum word spacing (limited
  paragraph composer);

* When Maximum word spacing is not greater than the Desired
  word spacing, shifting of the last word is not limited
  by the Maximum word spacing (unlimited paragraph composer)

* Add loext:paragraph-composer attribute, as LibreOffice
  ODF extension;

* Add ODF unit tests for the limited and not limited
  paragraph composer.

Note: "Smart justify" line breaking algorithm chooses
space shrinking (limited by Minimum word spacing)
only if shifting the last word isn't better based
on the desired word spacing. This was still a greedy
line breaking algorithm, resulting big word spacing
in the lines before a longer word.

The paragraph composer shifts the last word (or the
first part of the hyphenated last word) from the previous
line to decrease big word spacing in the actual line.

Note: balancing very big word spacing in narrow consecutive
lines can result vertical rivers. To avoid this, use limited
paragraph composer by setting maximum word spacing.

Follow-up to "smart justify", word spacing, letter spacing
and glyph scaling developments. Selected commits:
commit 529755f091 "tdf#166113
sw smart justify: adjust algorithm for interoperability",
commit 7d08767b89 "tdf#130088
"tdf#119908 smart justify: fix DOCX line count + compat opt.",
commit 7d6696757d "tdf#159923
sw cui offapi xmloff: add custom word spacing",
commit 5a48070f59 "tdf#126154
sw offapi xmloff cui: add min/max word spacing",
commit f83a04c510 "tdf#167648
cui offapi xmloff sw: add DTP-feature maximum letter spacing",
commit 3c53797210 "tdf#167648
sw letter spacing: implement minimum letter spacing",
commit 45ec7bd761 "tdf#168251
cui offapi xmloff sw glyph scaling: extend UNO/UX/ODF".

Change-Id: I727caad70536c86be524bc9d9b52bc71208c202a
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/203288
Reviewed-by: László Németh <nemeth@numbertext.org>
Tested-by: Jenkins
2026-04-09 14:42:07 +02:00
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ODF Import and Export Filter Logic

The main library "xo" contains the basic ODF import/export filter implementation for most applications. The document is accessed via its UNO API, which has the advantage that the same import/export code can be used for text in all applications (from/to Writer/EditEngine). The filter consumes/produces via SAX UNO API interface (implemented in "sax"). Various bits of the ODF filters are also implemented in applications, for example [git:sw/source/filter/xml].

There is a central list of all element or attribute names in [git:include/xmloff/xmltoken.hxx]. The main class of the import filter is SvXMLImport, and of the export filter SvXMLExport.

The Import filter maintains a stack of contexts for each element being read. There are many classes specific to particular elements, derived from SvXMLImportContext.

Note that for export several different versions of ODF are supported, with the default being the latest ODF version with "extensions", which means it may contain elements and attributes that are only in drafts of the specification or are not yet submitted for specification. Documents produced in the other (non-extended) ODF modes are supposed to be strictly conforming to the respective specification, i.e., only markup defined by the ODF specification is allowed.

There is another library "xof" built from the source/transform directory, which is the filter for the OpenOffice.org XML format. This legacy format is a predecessor of ODF and was the default in OpenOffice.org 1.x versions, which did not support ODF. This filter works as a SAX transformation from/to ODF, i.e., when importing a document the transform library reads the SAX events from the file and generates SAX events that are then consumed by the ODF import filter.

OpenOffice.org XML File Format

There is some stuff in the "dtd" directory which is most likely related to the OpenOffice.org XML format but is possibly outdated and obsolete.

Add New XML Tokens

When adding a new XML token, you need to add its entry in the following three files:

  • [git:include/xmloff/xmltoken.hxx]
  • [git:xmloff/source/core/xmltoken.cxx]
  • [git:xmloff/source/token/tokens.txt]