From koffice-devel  Sat Nov 30 19:13:26 2002
From: Thomas Diehl <thd () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 19:13:26 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Explanation on WP vs DTP modes in KWord (Re: Kde-cvs-digest request for information)
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Am Samstag, 30. November 2002 19:30 schrieb Dirk Sch=F6nberger:

> I had not the impression that either KWord or Scribus were after the
> page-by-page and graphics intensive stuff. IMHO they mostly are separated
> by their support of typographical constructs, but both are mostly of the
> text oriented kind.
> But I could be wrong.

Well, I could be wrong as well. But I'm under the impression that KWord's p=
age=20
layout mode tends to better suppport work on a page-by-page basis. Of cours=
e=20
it allows "chaining" frames together on separate pages but since it does eg=
=20
"not  know what a header, a footer and a column" is (as Nicholas put it) I=
=20
think it's certainly working under another paradigm than it does in its tex=
t=20
oriented mode and that this "paradigm" (approach, way of thinking) is more =
of=20
the sort "creating individual pages that look graphically interesting" than=
=20
"make a bigger document as uniform as possible".

Whatever we call those different approaches, I think most potential KWord=20
users will probably be confused that the same program works in two differen=
t=20
ways. I also think that almost every user will understand the text-oriented=
=20
mode very easily while most of them will hardly come to terms with the page=
=20
layout thing (certainly not without a more intensive read of documentation=
=20
than we can usually expect).=20

That's how I arrive at the conclusion that the things that are unique to th=
e=20
"page layout mode" (as re-arranging separate pages) should be either=20
integrated in the rest of KWord (eg by changing the document structure view=
=20
to something like the Ventura Navigator) or moved to another app which=20
follows another approach, eg Scribus. Main thing, IMHO, would be to avoid=20
having "two different ways of thinking" in the same program to a degree tha=
t=20
makes KWord to some people two different programs under the same name.

Regards,

Thomas

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