It won't be anywhere near close. Get a copy of SmartSuit 98 or later and see what a word processor was supposed to be.
On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 23:20 +0200, Zak McKracken wrote: > Am 17.06.2011, 16:20 Uhr, schrieb Roland Hughes > <[email protected]>: > > > If you visit the bug report site, you will see I have filed several bugs > > on this issue. They cannot implement WordPro tabs until they implement > > WordPro windows for documents. Right now they have taken the brain dead > > Microsoft approach of having each document as a tab. > > > Hmm... I'm not actually sure what this WordPro feature looks like (never > seen WordPro in action), but maybe there are ways to achieve something > similar in LibreOffce: > > - simplest: Use headings to navigate longer documents. Not suitable for > filed letters and stuff, but for longer documents with chapters very nice. > You get a chapter list in the navigator (F5) and can jump between them. > > - also simple way to view different parts of the same document at once: > Window -> New window > This opens a new window for the same window, the contents are identical, > but you can view different parts of the document at the same time. > > - Use different regions for different "tabs". Insert->region > Each region can have different page or column layouts,and so on, but > will share format and page templates. Also, the navigator shows different > regions, and you can jump between them > > - Use a global document (see also LO help for Global documents). You can > have several documents and link them into one global document. There, they > share the same format templates, the single documents are displayed as > regions, and they can (but do not have to) be read-only. A doubleclick > opens the original file for editing. So you could link all documents > regarding one client/case into one global document, so you can print them > all at once, or skip through them quickly or whatever it is you do with > those documents. > Global documents are also nice for very large pieces of work (books or > image-heavy documents. You can edit the single parts independently, > without having to load and handle the whole monster at once, then look at > it in all its glory in the global document. You can even create a new > sub-document from within the global document (but you'll need to give it a > filename) > > > All of this is probably not the same you're used to having, and porting > existing docs over is not likely easy. but it might work to achieve a > similar effect as the one you're describing. > > > > ... but why are you posting this in the "SVG embedding" thread? :) > > > Zak > > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
