Re: Next Generation Layout document.

From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 20:09:07 EDT

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    Martin,

    Thanks for the response!

    If I can find some time maybe I'll take a shot at defining a UI,
    although I probably would base it mainly on Word.

    Randy Kramer

    Martin Sevior wrote:
    > Actually the old layout structure would do this as will the new one. We
    > already have a colloapse() method on the blocklayouts and in fact this
    > will be generalized to all layout classes. The new layout structure will
    > be able to do collapsable outlining too.
    >
    > What it needs is for someone to think through a good UI and handle all the
    > situations when some piece of code assumes a line exists when
    > it doesn't. Fire up gdb and fix all the segfaults :-)
    >
    > It would actually be a good project for an experienced coder to get their
    > hands really dirty with abiword code.
    >
    > It could have been done for 1.0.0 but we didn't have time....



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