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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Hopeful suggestion for kword
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-04-26 18:03:06
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On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:40, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2001 09:04, David Faure wrote:
> > Yes... but is this really what you want to do ? Applying processor
> > scripts out of KWord ? I'm not sure I understand what exactly this is
> > about, but if it's indeed about inserting a citation... why not do that
> > as a data-tool, which can be run interactively ? This would lead to a
> > better (much more intuitive since graphical) user interface, and it would
> > solve this problem (of trying to hack into the kword file directly).
>
> Well, it has advantages to be able to run scripts on kword documents
> without needing a UI. I can update HTML with a perl script, why shouldn't I
> be able to do the same with a KWord document?

You can, just the perl script has to be a tiny bit more intelligent.

How much XML modules are out there?
And how much KWord-formatting modules are out there?
I want to use something standard. And HTML won't cut it for the featureset of 
KWord.

-- 
Thomas

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