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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Features that KWord should have
From:       Laurent Montel <lmontel () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-09-12 10:12:59
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Le Wednesday 12 September 2001 13:25, George Petri a écrit :
> Hello!
>
> For the first time ever, I typed up an assignment *completely* in KWord in
> Linux (no MS code for once :)).  I have never used a frames-based editor
> before but the interface of KWord was so good that it was really easy to
> use.
>
> But there are some features that I really want to see.  They are really
> small, trivial changes that I think should be made:
>

hi,

> 1. There should be shortcut keys for Bold, Italic, Underline and Strikethru
> (CTRL+B, CTRL+I, CTRL+U, CTRL+S perhaps).  MS Word has this and it
> works fine.  I don't want to take my hands off the keyboard just to make
> my text bold.

Yes I think that we forgot to add this short-circuit.
CTRL+B works
CTRL+S is for save document.

>
> 2. The ASCII Export filter should have an option like "MS-DOS/Windows Text
> Output" which will make the line terminators \r\n instead of linux's \n.


>

> 3. There is no point in having an "Edit Frames" and "Edit Text" mode.  It
> should not be difficult to program in the ability to resize frames without
> switching to a different mode.  Also, let the user move a frame by
> right-clicking to pop up a menu and then click "Move: OR middle-button-drag
> OR hold down a button for 1 second and then drag -- or preferably, all of
> the above :)
>
> 4. Why have inline images when images in frames are so much better?  Every
> time an image is inserted, just automatically put it in a frame.  I argue
> that inline images have NO advantages over ones in frames.
>
> 5. If you select some text and click on the Bold icon, it turns bold.
> Perhaps there should be "Capitalise", "Uncapitalise" and "Invert Case"
> buttons for the same reason (if you accidently typed a document with
> CAPSLOCK on -- or got one from a colleague).

This is an autoformat feature which uncapitalise when we write a word with 2 
capital letter.
There is also a dialogbox to change case of text tools->Change case

>
> I would really appreciate it if the KWord project would embrace these
> features because I think that they would significantly increase usability.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> George

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