On 30/10/2007, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun
Microsystems <> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dave Pawson wrote:
> > On 29/10/2007, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun
> > Microsystems <> wrote:
> >> Hi Florian, hi TC,
> >>
> >> Florian recently presented his work on OOo on enhanced input fields here
> >> in Hamburg to the Sun OpenOffice.org Writer team.
> >> I support his feature request for the input field to have a
> >> multi-paragraph-spanning input field and formatting for its content.
> >
> > I still haven't heard any justification for it.
> >
>
> I can only say, that there are several corporate customers and
> government customers of OpenOffice.org, which are requesting the feature
> of "multi-paragraph-spanning" input fields. For some of these customers
> this feature is a must.
Sorry, I don't regard that as justification. If they want a Microsoft Logo
would you add that?
What technical justification is there for breaking the xml tree model please?
Perhaps your customers would pay you for a branch just for them
if it's so important to them?
regards
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Dave Pawson
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