[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 33173] Tabbed UI (Writer): Division/section-per-tab (similar to Lotus WordPro)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33173

--- Comment #30 from roland at logikalsolutions.com ---
David is correct. Under Lotus WordPro a document was its own little file system
contained within a file. Each tab was a document section so you could keep
research notes, outlines, to-do, and make each chapter of a book its own tab. A
book could be re-arranged by dragging the tabs to change the order. When
printing you were allowed to select a range of tabs for printing.

Another poster was correct in that it is much like the "sheets" concept of a
spreadsheet.

What is important to understand is this wasn't just a navigation tool like the
Navigator sidebar. It was a document organization tool. Instead of having to
remember to copy an entire set of files when sending the document to a new
machine there was one file conceptually consisting of many individual files.
Custom styles were also contained within it. I believe it also had a "fat"
document feature which could be turned on. The "fat" document feature, much
like that of Word Perfect, would also store the fonts within the document. Not
just the name and family, but the entire font so a document could be moved to a
completely different machine without fear of pagination and appearance getting
scrambled by the new machine not having the correct fonts.

This is a real problem today with LO. If you are creating a document on a
Debian based machine which has the t1-cyrillic font set and send it to OpenSuSE
or some other RPM based distro machine where that font package isn't in the
repos one must jump through quite a few hoops to get the fonts installed on the
machine.

Microsoft Word users rarely face this issue because they tend to be far less
creative, using only the fonts bundled with Word and Windows.

According to this link,
https://www.file-extensions.org/lwp-file-extension
LO already supports the LWP file format. I'm actually okay with LO fleshing out
the LWP support completely and only enabling these features when using the LWP
file format.

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