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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Hopeful suggestion for kword
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-04-28 12:32:23
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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.

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