On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:13:07 -0400 "Kyle Reynolds" <kyle@...2740...> wrote:

Inkscape's broader purpose is as a drawing program, so mixing both

drawing and text document editing into a single application would muddle the interface and functionality.

i would have agreed to this some years ago. but today i'd rather go with this hands-on approach inkscape provides than with the nutshell approach of abiword or the like. i'd actually drop all those office tools, except of gnumeric, for a tool like inkscape that at least provided a bit of PageMaker. i don't expect QuarkExpress, really not!

the reason is that the inkscape-way is, from my point of view, like the excel-way, the more generic and thus the more powerful way of doing things. if this generic way is restricted because of the specialized interface, this forces me to search for a second tool that is to 90% like inkscape. it will be the same fat and slow to compile, the same complex and it will mainly solve the same technical problems internally. should only the interface enforce several implementations? i question this.

another way is to separate the masks from the core so that a PageMaker could settle on it. but, two different projects will lead to two incompatible file formats, i guess.

well, you decide.

maledetto <maledetto@...2748...>