From koffice Fri Jan 30 15:05:12 2004 From: Seth Kurtzberg Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:05:12 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: users book about KOffice Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=107547515713187 On Jan 30, 2004, at 8:22 AM, Eugene Nine wrote: > 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. That requirement (the compiler able to compile itself) goes back to the original K&R compiler. > 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? I've been watching the discussion and wondering when this would come up. The justification for doing this rather than enhancing the online documentation is? > > > > > Eugene Nine > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: David Faure > Reply-To: For discussion about KOffice > 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). >> ____________________________________ >> koffice mailing list >> koffice@mail.kde.org >> To unsubscribe please visit: >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice >> > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the HostPortal WebMail system at ninefamily.com > > > > > ____________________________________ > koffice mailing list > koffice@mail.kde.org > To unsubscribe please visit: > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Seth Kurtzberg CTO ISEC Research and Network Operations Center 480-314-1540 888-879-5206 seth@isec.us ----------------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________ koffice mailing list koffice@mail.kde.org To unsubscribe please visit: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice