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Re: Star Office (was: opensource in Israel)



On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:17:59PM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote:
> 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.

KWord can display multilingual Word documents very well. Try opening a
Hebrew Word document and tell it to use Times New Roman or any other
font with Hebrew glyphs. Except for the text going backwards, you'll
see it fine.
 
> 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.

I think it's more a matter of adding missing features than the Word
importer lacking. 'Bullets' missing (not really - KWord has bullets and
numbering :) isn't a problem with the underlying technology...

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