From koffice-devel Sat Nov 30 21:37:56 2002 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dirk_Sch=F6nberger?= Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:37:56 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Explanation on WP vs DTP modes in KWord (Re: Kde-cvs-digest request for information) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=103869276728649 > Well, I could be wrong as well. But I'm under the impression that KWord's page > layout mode tends to better suppport work on a page-by-page basis. Of course > it allows "chaining" frames together on separate pages but since it does eg > "not know what a header, a footer and a column" is (as Nicholas put it) I > think it's certainly working under another paradigm than it does in its text > oriented mode and that this "paradigm" (approach, way of thinking) is more of > the sort "creating individual pages that look graphically interesting" than > "make a bigger document as uniform as possible". I think I understand this "page layout" mode. I haven't worked with the "bigger" applications, like Ventura, or FrameMaker, but with some smaller application suite, which allows for a similar model. But I don't quite understand the differences (e.g. in User Interface) for the "large block of text" mode. Care to explain? > That's how I arrive at the conclusion that the things that are unique to the > "page layout mode" (as re-arranging separate pages) should be either > integrated in the rest of KWord (eg by changing the document structure view > to something like the Ventura Navigator) or moved to another app which > follows another approach, eg Scribus. Main thing, IMHO, would be to avoid > having "two different ways of thinking" in the same program to a degree that > makes KWord to some people two different programs under the same name. Again, I don't know Ventura Navigator, so please be patient :) I have some trouble visualizing a document structure view which mixes logical structure (chapters, headings and the like) with layout / visually oriented items, like the frames on a page. For two multiple applications, this is fine, as long as these applications share the same text layout algorithm and probably other features like embedding of graphics. One of the things I absolutely don't like about the "professional" DTP applications is their non-sharing attitude and their non-interchangeability, i.e. all applications are specialist tools, but the general useability, like common file formats, common clipboard exchange, common clipart/graphics support, common GUI ..., is non-existant. Somehow I don't have the impression that the Scribus authors are interested much in this direction. This make it rather difficult as a KOffice component, at least IMHO. Regards Dirk _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel