Anybody working on text column separators?

[C. Boemann]

On Friday 20 July 2012 07:24:13 C. Boemann wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2012 17:50:12 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I came across the issue that columns in texts are not yet completely
> > supported. Is anyone working on that?
> > 
> > For a start I did a patch (attached) which makes at least the column
> > separator data survive a roundtrip through Words. Might be worth to add
> > as bugfix to 2.5. What do you think?
> > 
> > For master I would like to also add actually rendering the column
> > separator as well as adding a control to the page style dialog to
> > configure it. But I have no idea yet how I best implement the rendering.
> > I looked e.g. at KWFrameLayout but saw no solution waiting between the
> > code lines.
> > 
> > Any proposals from Words insiders how to approach this?
> > 
> > Support for different column widths are a separate issue and have no need
> > for me ATM :)
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Friedrich
> 
> Hi
> 
> Please move the parsing methods to lib odf too, we will need them elsewhere
> as I'll explain below.
> 
> and yes we eventually need to backport it too, before the release. It's
> data loss.
> 
> As far as rendering is concerned we are in trouble. The kind of columns
> words supports currently (pagestyle defined columns) are implemented with
> separate textshapes for each column.
> 
> This means there is no shape where we want to draw the separator. I
> actually don't have a solution right now. Maybe adding extra none-editable
> pathshapes in words/part/frames/KWFrameLayout.cpp.
> 
> The other type of columns that we don't render at all (section columns)
> also needs to load and save separator info, so maybe look into that before
> committing (only if you can make it before 2.5 is released).
> 
> For section columns look at style:section-properties which loads
> style:columns which loads section:column-sep. The section-properties are
> currently implemented in kotext/KoSectionStyle.cpp which really should use
> KoColumns and your new stuff somehow to handle column-sep
> 
> We can't draw section columns at all yet (but at least I have a plan for
> that) so we can't draw the separators here either.
> 
> /Boemann
Bah, in my effort to describe what needs to be done I completely forgot to say 
thank you for this amazing contribution (I guess I'm too used to seeing 
awesomeness from your hands) ;)