https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959

--- Comment #230 from ther <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to liotier from comment #229)
> Mathias Bauer explained in 2007
> (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959#c76) that, on top of
> being a substantial and entirely new layout, this functionnality depended on
> being able to display simultaneously multiple layouts for a single document
> - which implied significant refactoring of the existing functionnality. In
> 2008 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959#c96) he underlined
> that lack of progress was not caused by undervaluing this feature but
> because its cost made it a lower priority. Support for multiple layouts was
> added in 2010 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=81480). Since
> then, no news as far as I could find by searching around. Mathias was most
> informative and constructive - has anyone heard from him ?
> 

No, but thanks for this history review. It prompted a search of the OO web
site, which encountered the interesting concept of "lazy consensus"
(http://openoffice.apache.org/community-faqs.html). Others equally ignorant are
encouraged to read; learnt something new! :)

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