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Re: Star Office (was: opensource in Israel)
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 17:44, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 05:14:07PM +0300, Ely Levy wrote:
> > yea koffice is stable but would it ever support bidi headers?
>
> See qt3stuff in Kword's tree -- it's the backported QRichText from Qt3.
> The API should be the same, so as soon as KDE libs could be compiled
> against Qt3, KWord could be linked directly against it too and support
> BiDi.
It seems that it will be easy to add Hebrew once you have everything already
there...
Point is, in this instance, I'm not looking for a good Hebrew word processor.
Personally, I have one on my Mac. I guess this question is more severe for
those of use who use only Linux. The problem I am addressing at the moment is
"a Hebrew word processor that will allow me to communicate with people who
use Microsoft Word".
As soon as you have a working BiDi kOffice, my guess is that this would be
the next problem for everybody, not just me... Because they will then have a
good Hebrew word processor, but except for prints, won't be able to exchange
documents with people.
Because kOffice is so KDE-oriented, and relies on features of qt3, and the
XML library and whatnot which you mentioned, it probably means that, like my
Macintosh word processor, its concepts and features are rather different than
those of Word. Which, in turn, means that attempting to convert between a
word document and kOffice will probably end up with a lot of lost
information, from bullets to tables, whatever.
What I'm getting at is that while StarOffice is bloatware, it is by far the
most Word-compatible word processor at this time.
Herouth
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