Re: [libreoffice-users] integration of styles management between writer and impress

On 12/09/2011, Paul D. Mirowsky <p_mirowsky@bentaxna.com> wrote:
> I would far rather see "Writer" with a presentation mode than the way
> things are now.

Could you explain how this would work in practice please? The next
stage is to make a feature request and as such it would be prudent to
discuss within this mailing list before making the feature request via
the formal procedure (which I haven't read yet to be honest).

> Unified table handling, flow of text from "Writer" with the fancy page
> changes as an add-on to page handling.

I'm not sure about consistent table and text flow behaviour because
the default page size for writer is a4 portrait, whilst in impress the
slide orientation is landscape.

> In "Document" mode, everything is as is in "Writer", in "Presentation"
> mode Impress takes over, but not to the point of the better handling of
> Writers ability.

Personally, this would be confusing the boundary between writer and
impress modules, although perhaps a more fundamental question is
whether these modules should exist. It could be argued that writer and
impress exist merely to imitate m$o's concept of creating presentation
content. From what you are stating, impress as a module should
disappear and a new paradigm be developed of using writer to create
presentation content. So a scenario would be to open writer module in
a default 'document' mode. Perhaps from the menu bar 'view', there
would be an option to select 'presentation' mode (below where 'web
layout' now resides?), which would automatically change the view to
landscape. To view the presentation, a new dialogue window could
appear (perhaps with a window bar title 'impress presentation viewer),
which the user could maximise to full screen mode to show the
presentation.

One minor disadvantage, from a marketing point of view, is that m$
users would complain: "where's the equivalent to powerpoint?".

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