Albert Astals Cid: > Finally i'm not sure this is not a extra specialized feature and that it > really makes sense to add to okular itself. Can you please describe the > use case?
Many documents contain tables, and often it is the tables that present the key information, whether it be a table of scores or results, a budget or financial report, list of participants, prices, points and counter-points in prose, or other information. As the Wikipedia puts it, "[T]he use of tables is pervasive throughout all communication, research and data analysis." With this pervasiveness comes a requirement to manipulate these tables. Currently, Okular can select consecutive text or a rectangle, but it has no capability for selecting a table as a table. Work-arounds include selecting the whole table as text and then relying on the text-parsing of the spreadsheet program to recover the structure; selecting the table cell by cell; or re-typing the information. The first fails unless each cell contains exactly one easily-parsed item (no blank cells, no cells with two words such as "not applicable"), the second and third become increasingly tedious and error-prone as the number of cells rises. The proposed feature will allow users to select and copy'n'paste a table as a single operation, preserving the row/column structure regardless of blank cells, multiple words in a cell or even multiple lines or a whole paragraph within each cell. The feature may also help with the use cases for bugs 168953 and 212458; they're asking for a different approach, but the table selection tool should be able to help at least for the copy'n'paste - the whole page can be selected as a table with a single row and two columns and pasted into another document in that format. Jiri -- Jiri Baum <j...@baum.com.au> http://www.baum.com.au/sabik _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
