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Subject:    Re: Explanation on WP vs DTP modes in KWord (Re: Kde-cvs-digest request for information)
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-12-01 23:24:58
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On Friday 29 November 2002 21:15, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> 2) I also still find it questionable to have separate modes for "textoriented 
> documents" and "page layout". Even if you have most of your text in frames it 
> may be practical to have underlying pages where you can see common structural 
> elements of the whole thing like page and column borders, repeated guidelines 
> and so on. This is particularly important, if you are working with a mixed 
> approach and have a main text which you would like to have in a base page and 
> a lot of additional stuff in text boxes, call-outs and so on.
> 
> On the whole I wonder if it wouldn't be much more practical to give up on 
> these extra modes and just let users rearrange pages in the document 
> structure window or the like.

One of the main problems with trying to do "page layout" things on top of
the usual "A4 WP" template, is that if you leave no room in the main frame
at all, the default empty paragraph that's in there, will try to position itself
where it can - and will create a new page for that.

One could say "then we should get rid of the 'empty paragraph'", but in
fact I don't see how (we need it to be able to type text).... it just seems
broken to me to have a page-sized frame _and_ to position other frames
on top of it, not using the main frame at all. The "page layout" mode allows
to get rid of the notion of a "main frame" altogether.

- -- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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