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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: paragraph tool
From:       Florian Merz <FlorianMerz () gmx ! de>
Date:       2008-07-03 13:25:39
Message-ID: 200807031525.40146.FlorianMerz () gmx ! de
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Hi Casper,

sorry for hijacking the threat. You've been talking about the character tab 
and the paragraph tab, and this made me think about these tabs:

Lot's of Word users I know use character formatting to create headines etc 
where they should have used paragraph styles. This is a bad thing because 
it results in terribly structured documents and things such as ToC creation 
will fail. If we want to encourage users to create structured documents we 
should prefer the paragraph tab over the character tab, so I propose that 
we make the paragraph tab the one which is opened by default (move it left 
in the tab bar).

Greetings,
 Florian

Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb C. Boemann:
> Hi Florian and all
>
> I've bee working on the text tool dockers too. As you might have noticed
> I've committed code that allows more than one option docker per tool,
>
> Locally I've used that to put the current tabs of the text tool into
> separate dockers. Well not quite, as I now only have a character docker
> and a paragraph docker. The style lists are incorporated in these two
> dockers.
>
> Your tool could fit it in nicely with this, however there is one thing I
> don't agree with.
>
> I'm not agreeing that paragraph formatting is not part of writing. Yes I
> too think latex is right in separating contents from layout, but that is
> not the same as not wanting to structure your document as you write it,
> so I think it's important to still have paragraph formating in the normal
> text tool.
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