Ian Lynch wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:44, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Well publisher is a dtp joke actually. I wasn't writing "let's do
publisher" but "let's add a serious dtp mode to oo.o"
It'll have to get in the queue behind a lot of other rfes unless you
know a source to fund the development.
(For those who've never touched anything but a word processor : in dtp
you write text by the kilometer then pour it in pretty presentation
molds. Sometimes the writing and the presenting are not even done by the
same team. In wisiwig word processors the damn thing does not let you
forget about the presentation a single second, so you do half-hearted
attempts at presentation while your text isn't finished yet, at by the
time you get to prettifying things most of those attempts either stand
in the way like the cruft they really hard or are just plain obsolete
since you've reworked you text dozens of time since then)
There really isn't any need to separate the two if you have the
stuctures in which to pour your text or type it in directly. It really
shouldn't make much difference
Writer is actually a bit worse even than word in this regard btw, at
least word got a serious plan mode.
Both are significantly worse in that respect than Impression Publisher
on the Acorn RISC OS platform in the early 90s. Impression Publisher
could be used quite happily for both word processing and DTP on a 25 MHz
machine with 4 meg of RAM but then it was written largely written in
Assembler optimised for one processor. In fact a Psion netBook is in
hardware terms considerably more powerful than those machines. This
seems to indicate that coding efficiency is more important than hardware
performance but there are very low expectations in this respect because
people believe products like MS Word and MS Publisher represent state of
the art hi-tec and that code efficiency doesn't matter too much because
hardware keeps getting more powerful.
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