#1712 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Allow Excel and Word files be viewed in "Browse Source"
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Jonas Borgström | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | version control/browser | Version: | 0.8.4 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | word excel |
| Cc: | mjlucas@… | Branch: | |
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Description
The project I'm using trac for has lots of word and excel documents in it that store various aspects of our project. Using xlhtml and wvware, I spit out either text or html fragments that is usable for viewing word docs. In the future, I'd like to support diffs between these word/excel documents.
I've worked on trac 0.8.4 and I noticed that this functionality is acts differently on the trunk. Hopefully, this will be able to move forward without much of an issue.
In File.py, I had to make some changes and pass both a "utf8" and a "raw" version of read data to the Mimeviewer api. This was necessary because the utf8 encoding broke the word document; The image plugin seems to ignore the data and work around the issue by grabbing the RAW data.
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by , 19 years ago
| Attachment: | word.excel.diff added |
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comment:1 by , 19 years ago
The 0.8 branch is only being updated for vital bugfixes. Patches for new features should be made against the trunk.
comment:2 by , 19 years ago
Has anything been done about this bug? It is still listed as new and linked against a old version.
It would be a useful feature for Trac since a lot of documentation of projects is still written in Word.
comment:3 by , 19 years ago
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comment:4 by , 19 years ago
IMHO, this bug should be closed as "wontfix": this feature (support for platform-specific files) would better be implemented as a plugin.
comment:6 by , 18 years ago
Agreeing with eblot - seems perfect for a plugin (and a wontfix for this ticket).
comment:7 by , 18 years ago
| Resolution: | → duplicate |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Replying to cmgreen@uab.edu:
… In the future, I'd like to support diffs between these word/excel documents.
Yes, this is something we should definitely have, pluggable diff viewers. See #53.
Replying to sid:
Agreeing with eblot - seems perfect for a plugin
ok for a plugin in this case, but the appropriate interfaces are not yet finalized (see #3332)
(and a wontfix for this ticket).
Allow Trac to use wvhtml and xlhtml to view word and excel files