https://github.com/hornc/fw2odf

FinalWriter (Amiga word processor) to Open Document Format conversion
https://github.com/hornc/fw2odf

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FinalWriter (Amiga word processor) to Open Document Format conversion

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hornc/fw2odf
• Owner: hornc
• License: mit
• Created: 2023-02-15T02:52:33.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-16T21:45:41.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-17T01:23:35.242Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: amiga, finalwriter, odf
• Language: Python
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• Size: 27.3 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# fw2odf

FinalWriter (Amiga word processor) to Open Document Format conversion

### Installation

    git clone https://github.com/hornc/fw2odf.git

    cd fw2odf

    pip install .

This will make the `fw2odf` command available.

    fw2odf sample.fw

Will produce an output file `sample.odf`.

### Current status

Very alpha, I am reverse engineering the Final Writer document format from scratch, based on some old personal documents I am trying to recover.

#### Implemented

 * IFF Chunk parsing

 * Text extraction (**all** text should be visible in the output doc)

 * Basic paragraph vs. span spacing

 * Font size from `ATTR`

 * Some Bold and Italics (based on font name)

 * [Symbol typeface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(typeface)) to UTF-8 conversion.

#### TODO

 * Superscript (and subscript)

 * Proper endnotes (ideally with an option to convert to footnotes)

 * Title page and other section handling

 * Images?

 * What else is encoded in `ATTR`?

 * Spacing and tabs etc? (`RULE`)

 * Heading styles

 * Refactor, structure more sensibly, and add more helpful debugging options and output

It is likely that the samples I am working from do not make use of all possible FinalWriter features.

A lot of my old documents use the Symbol typeface, for mathematical formulas _and_ for writing Classical and Modern Greek, which is why that is an early feature.

Recovering my own data is the main motivator behind this project, but I hope it may be more generally useful.