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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Default text oriented templates
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-02-15 17:20:55
Message-ID: 200402151820.55059.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Sunday 15 February 2004 17:28, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 14:09:04 PM +0100, Thomas Drillich (th@drillich.com) 
wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 14. Februar 2004 14:13 schrieb M. Fioretti:
> > > I found this a bit confusing. What I mean is, what is the difference
> > > between 1 and 3 (also A4 format)? Also, the number of columns is
> > > independent from the paper size, so I would have expected something
> > > like:
> > >
> > > 1) A4
> > > 2) A4, two columns
> > > 3) US Letter
> > > 4) US Letter, two columns
> >
> > The differerence is the pagesize German (DIN-A4) and US-Letter
> > pageformat.
>
> I know. My observation was from the point of view of the first time
> user. As already said, the default page size is normally a
> desktop-wide parameter, for all the documents one writes, regardless
> of the page layout. So my real question is the one at the end of my
> original message:
>
> why isn't the paper size given a different check box, with the
> template icons named just "plain text", "two columns", etc...
>
> or, at least, the templates don't have complete names: "A4 plain
> text", "US Letter plain text", "A4 two columns", "US Letter two
> columns", etc...
>
> The current window gives the impression that kword can do an A4 plain
> page *or* an US Letter plain page, *or*, if one does want two columns,
> it must be in some other page size.
>
> I'm not making a real issue out of this: I'm just curious to know if
> more information like suggested above was simply forgotten, or if it
> actually was an interface decision of some kind (which one?)

Well, I suppose that the best would be a tab for ISO formats (A4, A5...) and 
one for American formats (Letter...). The problem is that we do not have 
templates for many American formats (no enveloppe, no 2 columns etc.)

So perhaps once KWord will be switched to OOWriter/OASIS format, it would be 
time to look at what template we should offer. (However volunteers to create 
templates seem as rare as developers.)

>
> Ciao,
> 	Marco Fioretti

Have a nice day!

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