Re: [office] Proposal for table templates

[David Faure <faure@kde.org>]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 05:04, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> 
> On Feb 15, 2006, at 2:37 PM, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > This would define paragraph properties (centered, with margin etc.)
> > but it wouldn't define the -name- of the paragraph style to use - for 
> > instance
> > in the GUI of the wordprocessing application, the paragraph style name 
> > appears
> > when the cursor is in that paragraph.
> > As discussed in the conf call, we want users to use paragraph styles so
> > our templates should do that too, instead of simply applying paragraph
> > properties to the default paragraph style.
> 
> I'm definitely in favor of encouraging use of styles.
> 
> So David, do I understand you right?  You want to allow table templates 
> to reference (non-table-specific) paragraph and graphics styles?

Yes.

> Is that what is different than the current spec?

Yes (but the current spec is not used by any implementation that I know of,
it was just something I requested last year but overlooking this detail).
So I don't see a problem with changing the spec on this.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).