From koffice Sat Apr 28 12:32:23 2001 From: David Faure Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:32:23 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: Hopeful suggestion for kword X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=98846137516026 On Wednesday 25 April 2001 17:57, Mike Richardson wrote: > Maybe, but in many cases it would be _really_ useful to be able to "hack" the > file directly. Well, it _is_ possible, let's stop arguing on that. We chose XML and TAR for a reason: exactly that one. > Not being able to do this is why so many things are really > hard work, or at best extremely tedious, when working with a GUI. One can > even imagine doing stuff like generating entire KWord documents directly from > a script, say to generate a particularly fancily formatted report from a > database. > > Assuming by "data tool" you mean a GUI component, then that is great if you > are selecting a handful of (say) citations. But suppose I want to append all > citations where the authors include both Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, which were > written between 1882 and 1887 and which were originally published in German > or on a German publication, or written between 1888 and 1894 in any language > ..... you get the idea Nothing that a good dialog to perform this query, and insert everything at once, can't do. -- David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/ KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today