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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Filesize
From:       Thomas <zander () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2000-09-04 9:26:02
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Fortunately, leaving away the format tags which are empty will not 
confuse kword. So half of the problem is solved with that.

While I think you are right, I don't think we can do this (depends on
how much time we have offcourse). And I would really like to be able to
make it possible to have styles defined externally. This is needed if
you make books. But that really needs more time. So unless my todo
list becomes empty before the release I will think about it. (don't count
on it though ;)

> 
> I would suggest implementing this now, before the 1.0 release. It is
> inevitable that companies will start adding support for Kword files to
> their own products it KWord becomes popular enough, and if style-only
> formatting was not supported in the first version, there will be more
> problems. For example, I know that for the RTF format, Microsoft
> reccomends putting the formatting information in even if you already
> marked the paragraph with a certain style because older readers won't be
> able to read it. I would suggest doing immediately so that you didn't
> have to always include the formatting information even if you already
> have styles.
> 
> Shaheed Haque wrote:
> > 
> > Thomas,
> > 
> > I cannot try your patch right now, but it looks good. FWIW, post KDE2, I
> > propose to add proper style inheritence which should make things even
> > better. The idea is that if a paragrpah has style X, it will default all its
> > values from X on import, and only write out changed value on export. With
> > luck, that will make an even bigger difference. I think your work and this
> > proposal are orthogonal.
> 
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Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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