From koffice  Wed Jan 24 22:36:52 2001
From: Christian Lavoie <clavoi14 () po-box ! mcgill ! ca>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:36:52 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: copy & paste behaviour
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=98037610115051

> Ascii art in a office suite? One with embedded vector and bitmap support??

How about source-code in a kword document? Say I want to quote kword.cc 
(whatevver) in a university assignment?

OR

I'm writing a paper on internet culture, quoting text files that I'd rather 
keep in monospaced, variable-spaced characters (aka ASCII art)

OR

I need to transfer an ASCII chart from a txt file to kword. I'll just cut and 
paste the text, and draw the table over it.

OR

....

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Point is, ASCII files are omnipresent in UNIX (config, source, scripts, 
EVERYTHING that's not an executable or shared lib is most probably a text 
file)... 

Expect to be surprised by what would be wanted by your users =)

I think actually the 'best' way to implement this would be using an embedded 
micro-kpart, which would allow, for example, highlighting the said 
source-code (well, kwrite can do it, why not use it?), or whatever I feel 
like doing with my documents.

> Ok, I'll put a 'make this configurable' on my TODO list..
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Thomas

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Christian Lavoie
clavoi14@po-box.mcgill.ca
UIN: 947212