From koffice-devel Thu May 15 21:35:47 2008 From: Pierre Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:35:47 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Tables for KWord, next iteration Message-Id: <2d74a35c0805151435t72908405jde805a3c0abe2a0a () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=121088846204291 On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Sebastian Sauer wrote: > 1. TableShape > I guess this is really the worst thing to go since it would mean we would need > one textshape per cell and that sounds like a bad idea specially for large > tables. Also we would need with various other things like splitting the shape > if it's larger then a page and we would need to deal with nested shapes. Also > we would probably need to use the same logic for columns then. We only mean tables in KoText/KWord of course, the tableshape is great for single tables in, say, KPresenter or Krita... > 2. Extend the current layout code. > Those code-base is a rather huge mess imho and tables+nested tables would turn > it into a code-monster. The idea would be to fork here the (private and not > accessible) logic scribe's layout has for tables and extend our layouter with > it. Just a small comment about this possibility : when I tried it, alone, about 10 months ago, I stopped trying after working one week with no kind of results except headaches... I don't think it'd be really sane to do this one if we can't get one of the pharmaceutic industry monsters to provide us with tons of aspirin... _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel