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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: a tool for editing paragraph spacing
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2008-02-28 7:15:19
Message-ID: 200802280815.19321.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Florian Merz wrote:
> Hi KOffice developers,
>
> I've been working on a KoTool for the TextShape which tries to allow
> editing of paragraph spacing and indentation in a more visual and intuitive
> way. Please keep in mind, that right now this is not more than a proof of
> concept. There are lots of bugs and corner cases which need to be taken
> care of before this is ready for some real use. It also needs a few more
> features to be truly useful, such as line spacing, QTextListFormat support
> and QTextTableFormat support.
>
> How to test it:
> Apply the attached patch and recompile and install plugins/textshape/. Open
> KWord and write a few paragraphs of text (preferably multi-line paragraphs,
> but a single line works, too). Select the tool from the toolbox (sorry, it
> doesn't have its own icon yet). Click on any text paragraph in your
> document. The tool will now display a frame around the paragraph which
> consists of a number of rulers. You can drag any of these rulers to change
> the corresponding indentation or margin. The text should be layed out
> accordingly as soon as you release the mouse button.
>
> What do you think about it? Any suggestions or ideas? If this is considered
> useful for koffice I'd be thankful for a code review. I'm not too sure I
> used the koffice libraries properly...

Sounds very cool! I'm going to give it a try tonight.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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