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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Tables for KWord, next iteration
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2008-05-16 6:39:45
Message-ID: 200805160839.46097.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Thursday 15 May 2008, 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.

I tried to go this way, but completely lost my way when it came to integrating 
with KoText. I still think that tables should be implemented as a shape, but 
that doesn't preclude building a table layout thing on top of kotext that 
doesn't demand a shape for every cell.

One issue with tables is that in accommodate MS Word-type tables (where 
columns vary in size in different rows, so the first column can be 20 in row 
1 and 25 in row 2) aren't supported in ODF. OOo fakes this kind of layout -- 
Qt supports it natively because it support the full html table mess.

The weird thing is that we've already got a table shape: the kspread one. And 
there isn't much difference in ODF between a text table and a spreadsheet 
table, especially since text tables should support formulas, too.

I have also spent time looking at the table code in abiword, OOo and Qt -- but 
it seems that table code is something that everyone who implements it makes a 
mess off. Perhaps the problem is hard and the result is unavoidably messy.

In any case, feel free to svn rm the abortive attempt at a table shape I 
started in January: I'm still interested, but won't be doing anything about 
it at least until after 2.0 is released. And I want to get Krita stable for 
that.


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Boudewijn Rempt 
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