Subject: Re: Headers, footers, and tab stops for formatting
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2001 - 04:26:37 CST
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, WJCarpenter wrote:
Hi,
I also think that there is no need to disable functionality that seems
useless for developers, but is generally useful. We are not MS to think on
what users can need or what they can't. At least if support of generic
behaviour doesn't require a lot of efforts.
> paul> Why? It sounds like an interesting abstraction, but off the
> paul> cuff I see no practical use.
>
> I see no practical use of arbitrarily restricting headers and footers
> just because someone can't think of an immediate use for a particular
> general feature. Multiple columns are just one instance of that. I
> already said I can't immediately think of a practical use for it, but
> I've only thought about it a total of 5 minutes. (Someone said
> having tab stops was the same as multiple columns. I don't really see
> how. If so, get rid of multiple columns from main body text.)
>
> If as many restrictions as possible are lifted from headers, footers,
> fields, footnotes, section titles, etc, etc, we won't have to wish we
> had those restrictions lifted when someone does thing of a good use
> case. By some point in the future, AbiWord must be able to format an
> arbitrary chunk of stuff inside some chunk of real estate. If other
> things are not at least conceptually founded on a generalization of
> doing that, I don't think we'll ever be out of hell.
> --
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Best regards,
-Vlad
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