[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 34002] EDITING - Add Reveal Codes feature like there is in WordPerfect.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002

--- Comment #18 from James E. LaBarre <j.e.labarre at gmail.com> ---
I would just like to put a comment/clarification here, although I suspect there
will be others who understand the technical factors far better than me.

My understanding of the WordPerfect file format, and/or the way the application
handled managing a document being edited, is that the file is a "streaming
data" format (if that is the correct term).  A code/format gets activated, and
is in effect until it is deactivated.  Formatting codes could be nested as
well.  The idea of the "reveal codes" function was/is to show those embedded
formatting codes within the stream.

Seems to me the WP formatting concept is basically like a "markup language",
and from what I remember of using WP, they looked very much like HTML and XML. 
And since the OpenDocument format is also a streaming data format, it would
seem to logically lend itself to a reveal codes editor.

This is, of course, presuming that WP was in fact using a stream of data for
their document format, and not using some long-since-lost hack to make it look
that way.

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