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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: users book about KOffice
From:       "Eugene Nine" <enine () ninefamily ! com>
Date:       2004-01-30 14:58:42
Message-ID: 200401300722.AA136577140 () ninefamily ! com
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I think an outline mode should be easy to write/emulate with text frames, I haven't \
tried it out yet, but if that would work that could be a paragraph/page/chapter of a \
book on how to do it.  Simply have a frame for each level of outline.  I would like \
to recomend that we do write the book in Kword, kind of like the old Borland standard \
(did they start that or was it even before them) of the compiler needing to be able \
to compile itsself, Kword/Koffice should be fully capable of handeling a project as \
large as a book about Koffice.  Or possibly build a Kpublisher app which is a front \
end to the Kparts which allows more flexibility in a document than each individual \
part.

The next question would be to make a book open source or not.  I have seen a few like \
that, Oreilly is an example, a few of thier books are prints of documentation freely \
available online, your simply paying for the paper in your hand and their time to \
print and bind it.  Would it be wise to allow the book to be open source and freely \
available on the web but available from publishers for a fee?  If so do we want to \
keep it in a docbook like the KDE help files?  How much of the help files do we want \
to duplicate?




Eugene Nine



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: David Faure <faure@kde.org>
Reply-To: For discussion about KOffice <koffice@mail.kde.org>
Date:  Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:48:33 +0100

> On Friday 30 January 2004 16:02, Eugene Nine wrote:
> > I guess the first decision will be how much overlap between the online help and a \
> > book do we want.  I've purchased books before which were basically prints of the \
> > online help and nothing else and I've purchased books which were completely \
> > advanced features and assume you have read every online help page and I've \
> > purchased books somewhere in the middle.   I would also like to see a chapter on \
> > scripting and the command line file conversion tool and maybe some information on \
> > remote deployments for someone that may be in an office environment and have end \
> > users that use Koffice.  That reminds me does Kword have an outline mode?  \
> > Something where it recognizes the headings and lets you expand/collapse them and \
> > drag them around, I haven't seen anything like that, must be time for a feature \
> > request.
> 
> No scripting other than DCOP yet.
> 
> There is no outline mode like in MSWord, but you can see the outline
> in the sidebar and jump to headers (no dragging though AFAIK).
> 
> -- 
> David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
> Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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