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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Formal GSoC Proposal [Draft]: Basic tables support for KWord
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2009-03-26 18:24:32
Message-ID: 200903261924.32531.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Thursday 26 March 2009, Alfredo Beaumont wrote:
> Thursday 26 March 2009(e)an, Thomas Zander(e)k idatzi zuen:
> > On Thursday 26. March 2009 13:05:56 Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> > > Proposal Name:
> > > Basic tables support for KWord
> >
> > +1
>
> I also consider this a very important lacking feature in kword. IMHO it
> would be a very interesting project for koffice.

Yes -- my only concern is that this is a very big feature, and really quite 
complicated to do well. From my own abortive attempt and some discussion with 
the guy who did the previous table implementation in KOffice on irc, I came 
away with the distinct impression that it is really hard to scale up a simple 
first-cut implementation to something that can handle everything ODF defines 
about tables -- where tables can be nested unto the umpteenth generation and 
contain basically anything. For instance, it doesn't work to make every table 
cell a separate shape, but table cells must be able to contain shapes. Then 
there are some nasty differences between the row/col handling in .doc and odf 
-- and we really should be able to sensibly support .doc tables, too.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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