[softwarelist] Re: Paragraph Rules?
- From: Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:12:19 +0100
On 8 Apr 2011 Brian Bailey <bbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
Enthusiastically seconded!
With best wishes,
Peter.
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