[softwarelist] Re: Paragraph Rules?
- From: Brian Bailey <bbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:03:43 +0100
Hi
[snip]
> >Interesting!
> >I was messing around within the main OPro (RISC OS) Templates file
> >today, just tweaking the size and position of the main window, and I
> >noticed the 'Paragraph rules' dialogue. Which looks to me like it was
> >once planned to have Horizontal and Vertical rules.
> Yes there were a few things that were designed but never implemented,
> rules, contents/index generation. It's funny they could have been done,
> just a few weeks work, yet years of work have gone into the project
> since it was "finished" (May 1997).
> Rules were like those in Impression, where they also are used to emulate
> tables. There is a spec. for proper table support, which would have been
> much better.
> The file format is set up to store the information in the rules window
> etc.
> Bullet points and paragraph numbering were something which was specified
> and then did get done later on.
> The choice was probably to do these extra things instead of the Windows
> version. With hindsight maybe that would have been better.
> >BTW David, if you were to spend any time adding features to OPro I
> >rather see the DDL functions we've talked about. But you were probably
> >expecting that as I mention it in all my posts ;)
> Thanks for reminding me - seriously, it won't get done without some
> encouragement.
If implemented, would the above do anything that !TableMate doesn't do,
perhaps?
Encouragement? What kind, please? Do you mean the £sd kind, which I would
gladly contribute towards an upgrade?
Cheers
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