From koffice  Tue Jun 22 23:42:54 1999
From: weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:42:54 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Two thoughts
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Hi,

is there some www page about goose ?
I once saw one but dont know here it was.

Bye
Torben


On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 JohnZed@aol.com wrote:

> 1) Has anybody looked into integrating Goose into KSpread?  I like KSpread, 
> but it doesn't really have a base of statistical mehtods yet.  Goose was 
> designed to be modular and is written in C++.  This would be a good start to 
> better code sharing between KSpread and some of the Gnumeric backend.  Really 
> sophisticated 3D plotting and stats are so complicated (especially if you 
> want to make them fast) that it would be criminal for KDE and the Guppi/Goose 
> team to duplicate efforts.
> 2) Building templates for KWord.  I was thinking that the kind of templates 
> used in many commercial word processors wouldn't be hard at all to implement. 
>  By this I mean the kind in which you have a space like RECIPIENT NAME in a 
> document, then when you load that document, a dialog pops up asking you to 
> fill in the recipient's name, address, etc., then goes on to generate the 
> form letter. That should actually be pretty trivial: put < TEMPLATEITEM 
> NAME="Recipient Name" > NAME < /TEMPLATEITEM> tags in the document, then scan 
> through for templateitem tags when you open the template.  By itself, this is 
> just little more than find-and-replace, but when you start talking about 
> integration with a contact manager or, eventually, Katabase, it becomes very 
> cool.
> --JZ
> 
>