Given that not much has been needed over the years, I have recently been informed that most current Linux distributions don't have the QT4 support files as an installable option any more.
I had a look to see what's needed to update from QT4 to a current version, QT5 or QT6, and it seems that there is a lot of backwards incompatibilities now. My bad, I should have kept on top of new QT versions as and when they arrived. I am aware that upgrading the major version of the software can, and sometimes does, introduce these problems, but I missed out.
The current version is 6.x.x and I'm attempting a rewrite to make sure I get everything up to date. I did try to convert over to wxWidgets instead of QT -- there are some users here who really don't like QT software (no names!) -- but I didn't get anywhere with it.
Hopefully, the new version will take tabs into consideration -- currently only the text in paragraphs is extracted, with bold, italic and such like -- and tabs and margins are simply ignored. The potential problem here is, Quill docs are a fixed line length, but reformatting for PDF, say, makes the lines longer so while the beginning of the line may have the correct tabs in place, once the line exceeds 48/64/80 characters, any tab stops will probably be "weird"!
So, question, do you want the exported Quill data to be formatted as per the Quill document, with fixed line lengths, or are you happy with the current operation where the data are simply pulled out with no consideration for formatting, line lengths etc? (Or both?)
Oh, don't be looking for an update "any time soon", I'll do my best to get my finger out, but time isn't something I have much of, not the free stuff anyway, these days!
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Cheers,
Norm.