re: localise normal.awt (bidi options)

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 10:26:56 EDT

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     --- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
    wrote: >
    > Hi Dom,
    >
    > OK, from your and other folk's comments on the
    > styles, the preference
    > "default to RTL" needs to stay.
    >
    > > > (1) there is a GUI through which the user can
    > > > change the document property "dom-dir" (<abiword
    > props="dom-dir:...
    > > > ) so that she can change it for normal.awt and
    > any other document
    > > > (AFAIK this is currently lacking and needs to be
    > implemented
    > > > prior to 2.0 no matter what).
    > >
    > > Perhaps this is what the checkbox in the Options
    > > dialog should do.
    >
    > That would only work for the normal template, and is
    > rather
    > unintuitive; to change the property for the current
    > document, the
    > checkbox should go wherever the combo for selecting
    > document-wide
    > language will go, probably a new tab on
    > Format->Document
    >
    > > Templates do not get "attached." Your document
    > starts
    > > out with normal.awt as the base document. Think of
    > it
    > > like "every new document starts off by being a
    > copy of
    > > normal.awt."
    >
    > I see; I somehow assumed that the templates worked
    > the same way they
    > do in Word: you start with a template as the base
    > document, but you
    > remember which template was used and the user can
    > attach a different
    > template at any point, which results in all styles
    > shared between the
    > document and the new template being redefined to
    > match the template.

    So Word templates work much like stylesheets then?
    Do we need such a concept in .abw? And if so, aren't
    real stylesheets more suited to XML file formats
    anyway?

    Andrew.

    > This is immensely useful, and would be really easy
    > to do -- we
    > basically do this in all the importers that import
    > styles. If we add
    > something like:
    >
    > void ie_imp::setLoadStylesOnly(bool)
    > bool ie_imp::getLoadStylesOnly()
    > virtual
    > ie_imp::::supportsLoadStylesOnly(){return false;}
    >
    > it would be possible to reload definitions of styles
    > from pretty much
    > any document (word, rtf, abw, awt) with minimal new
    > code -- a new
    > method pd_Document::importStyles() would create the
    > importer
    > similarly to importFile(), and new edit method
    > importStyles() would
    > just use the FileOpen dialogue and then call
    > pd_Document::importStyles().
    >
    > Tomas
    >
    > >
    > > > (3) the change of document-wide "dom-dir"
    > needs
    > > > to trigger a complete
    > > > reformat of the entire document; a change in
    > > > normal.awt would need to
    > > > trigger complete reformat of all open
    > documents.
    > >
    > > See above. There is no concept of attaching a
    > template
    > > with a document. In fact, I believe this behavior
    > is
    > > outright wrong to do.
    > >
    > > Dom
    > >
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