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diff --git a/gnu/packages/wv.scm b/gnu/packages/wv.scm index 12201faa3a..866cfee222 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/wv.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/wv.scm @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU ;;; Copyright © 2014 Marek Benc <merkur32@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> +;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -52,11 +53,12 @@ ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config))) (synopsis "Microsoft Word conversion library and utilities") (description - "wv converts Word 2,6,7,8,9 files to HTML and LaTeX. The Word 2 -conversion is still incomplete (no formatting), but it will do a passable job -extracting the text, which is what you probably want anyway. + "wv converts files written by Word 2000, 97, 95, and 6 (known internally as +Word 9, 8, 7, and 6) to HTML or LaTeX. Word 2 documents can still be converted +to plain text but will lack formatting. -libwv can be used as a library by third party programs, AbiWord uses it as its -word importer, and KWord may use it in the future.") +Othe programs can use wv as a library to convert Word documents to other +formats. AbiWord uses it as its Word importer, and KWord uses concepts and +code from wv in theirs.") (home-page "http://wvware.sourceforge.net/") (license license:gpl2+))) |