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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov  8 04:48:12 +0000 
2007 -------
Yep, exactly. As I've said before: "If you simply want to replace Word, then
you're pretty much there." With this feature you'd probably also gain customer
base from the WordPerfect market, smaller but much more demanding - these are
usually the guys writing moderate to large documents - not those just looking
for a Post-It note writer, or typing one letter every 3 months.

If this feature is implemented decently you may even "steal" some of the TeX
clientèle. Then if you can get incorporation between Writer, Draw AND RC you may
even find that the less demanding PageMaker (or similar) users would start to
adopt OOo instead. Yes, well maybe they'd rather go to Scribus.

All that said, the 1st step would be to at least reveal the codes. This would
make it better than Word (at least in my opinion). Thereafter start implementing
something like "Revise" Codes - thus making that code viewer interactive like WP
does. You may even find (or invent) something better, but I'd advise starting
from WP's RC as a benchmark to aim for.

I've come across something that works similarly in a Draw alternative: Inkscape
which uses SVG files, allows every single object (line, text, curve, etc.) to be
selected and it's SVG code can be opened in a text editor for tweaking. Now
given, your user then needs to know how to work with SVG (or in Writer's case
XML - similar but different) this might be a step forward. I.e. extract the
portion surrounding the current cursor position from the XML file(s). All you
then have to do is implement a more user friendly interface.

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