From koffice  Mon Jan 28 12:58:05 2002
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:58:05 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Question about shadowing..
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On Sunday 27 January 2002 17:04, Mike McBride wrote:
> I am curious why Shadow effects of text are performed on a paragraph
> basis, rather than on a character basis.  
> 
> There will occasionally be times when a user might want shadowed text in
> the middle of a sentance.  Under the current setup, that could only be
> accomplished with complicated layering of frames.
> 
> All other DTP and Wordprocessing programs that I am aware of consider
> shadow effects to be a font property, not a paragraph property.
> 
> I think it would be better to allow shadow text to exist within a line.
> Is there any reason it was decided to have it this way?

Urgency, I guess. I needed it urgently in order to avoid a regression in 
KPresenter, where presentations could have shadows (applied to the whole 
paragraph) with the previous text object, so I ported it to the kotext, 
making it already more flexible (paragraph property instead of whole object 
property). I wondered about char property, knew it would come up, but went 
for the easy way first. There's also a matter of memory storage, there are 
quite a few variables with shadow (distance, direction, color), but since we 
share textformats, it shouldn't be too much of a problem. There's the problem 
of the UI too, though.

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