Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

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  
> <roland@logikalsolutions.com>:
>
> > 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


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