# The &kword; Users Manual

Mike
McBride
2001-31-07
1.01.00

&kword; is a complete word-processing program. It is part of the &koffice; suite of utilities.

KDE
KWord
kOffice
word processing

## Current status of this manual

This documentation is not current with the status of &kword;.

Due to circumstances outside of my control, I have not been able to keep the manual in step with the tremendous rate of improvement and change that &kword; has gone through.

If anyone is interested in helping with the documentation of &kword; or any other application for &kde;, please visit the documenters web site.

## Introduction

### Introduction

&kword;, is a full featured
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Word-processor/Desktop Publishing Program.

&kword; is part of the &koffice; productivity suite for the K Desktop Environment. Other applications in &koffice; include:

- &kspread; (A fully functional spreadsheet.)
- &kpresenter; (A presentation creator.)
- &killustrator; (A vector drawing program.)
- &krayon; (A bitmap image editor)
- &kivio; (A flowchart creator)
- &kugar; (A report generation tool.)
- and a simple integrated office desktop, to help organize your work.

All &koffice; applications were designed from the beginning to take advantage of the features of &kde; 2.0. Because of this, &kword; (like all of &koffice;), supports drag and drop, themes, and many other advanced features you expect from todays desktop environment.

&kword; is a word-processor which can work either as a traditional word processor, or as a simple but powerful desktop publishing application. This is possible because &kword; is a frame oriented word processor, not a page oriented word processor (&Microsoft; Word, Word Perfect and Applixware are all page oriented word processors).

Frame oriented word processors work by creating one or more frames per page. Each frame acts as a boundary (like a frame which surrounds a photograph), which limits the text to the boundaries of the frame. You can move and re-size boundaries to define exactly where on the page the text will be placed. As you re-size frames, the text is reworked to fit within these frames.

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You can easily connect one frame to the next. When you connect two frames, any text which does not fit within the first frame, flows easily and automatically into the next.

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In addition to text, you can include virtually anything inside a frame. A frame can contain a spreadsheet, clip-art, pictures, a database form, or nearly any piece of data. Since each page can have any number of frames, documents can appear quite sophisticated while still remaining easy to edit.

&kword; users also benefit from the auto wrap features of &kword;. When you place one frame on top of part of another frame, the text from the lowest frame can be automatically wrapped around the newly created frame. This reformatting occurs in a WYSIWYG Graphical User Interface, and happens automatically while you edit.

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&kword; simplifies the creation of new pages (at the users option), by automatically creating frames for the next page, using the current page as a blueprint. This eliminates the need for the user to re-define the frame boundaries each page.

As a word-processor, &kword; includes the most used options of many other word processors, while maintaining a simple interface. In addition to the features you expect from a modern word-processing package (text entry, bold face, italics, text alignment, text printing, &etc;), &kword; can:

- Use predefined templates, to generate complex document layout with one click of the mouse. As a user, you can build your own templates, download templates from the web, or use the current document to create a new template.

- &kword; allows very complicated numbering of lists. You are not limited to numbers or letters, you can define your own series for your special lists.

- Define paragraph layout styles, to shorten the editing time of your document, and ensure consistency throughout a long document.

- Edit headers and footers for your documents. You can have different headers for even and odd pages, or the same headers throughout.

- Search through your document for text. You can further refine your search by specifying font, format, font size and many other features of the text. By adding wild-cards to your search, the search and replace functions can become very powerful.

- Complete footnote and end-note support.

- Tables. You can either use the table formatting capabilities of &kword;, or you can import any spreadsheet from &kspread;.

- &kword; has built in support for KParts. KParts allows you to insert any spreadsheet, picture, chart, graph, document, or any other data type from any &koffice; application. You are free to edit that KPart using the tools designed for that task, without needing to start the application at all.

- &kword; can zoom in or out to make the editing of your documents easier on any computer, and with any font size.

- &kword; supports customizable tool bars and menus.

- &kword; has extensive internationalization support.

- You can embed formulas directly into &kword; using the integrated formula editor.

The best part about &kword;, is the effort that has been placed to make &kword; a productive tool for all your needs from the simplest letter, to the most complex document you might need to work on.

### What parts of this guide should I read?

Anyone who has looked at the table of contents has surely come to the conclusion that reading this manual from cover to cover, is an unreasonable (and fortunately unnecessary).

Since different users will have different needs, each section of this manual is self-contained. You are not expected to have read all of the previous sections of the manual to find the instructions useful.

This user guide is designed to be helpful to a wide variety of users, from the very experienced, to the novice user. Each user will have different needs from this manual. To help you determine what you should read and what you can wait on, I have prepared a suggested reading list for three levels of user.

If you read each of these sections before you start using &kword;, you will find that using &kword; is easy.

Experience Level | Previous Experience | What you should read
--- | --- | ---

Novice

No previous computer experience

- Fundamentals
- Step by Step Tutorial
- The KWord Screen
- Document Storage and Printing
- Editing Your Document
- Introduction to Menu Bars and Tool Bars

Intermediate

Comfortable with other page based word processors (&Microsoft; Word, Word Perfect and Applixware.)

- Fundamentals
- Step by Step Tutorial

Advanced User

Comfortable with other frames based word processors (Frame Maker, &etc;).

- The difference between Word processing and DTP templates

Obviously this will not cover everyones needs. What I hope it will do, however, is help you determine which parts of the manual you need to read before you begin using &kword;.

These sections will help you get started initially. You can then refer to the other parts of this manual as needed to help you with specific questions or situations.

&fundamentals; &tutorial; &basics; &guides1; &guides2;

## Detailed Guides: Document Layout

&guides3; &styles; &tabls;

&guides4;

## How do I...

### How do I get the pages numbers on the outsides of the pages and the title in the middle of the header(like a novel)?

### How do I get the chapter name on the top of each page?

### How do I create a `.pdf` file to post on the web?

### How do I change the Quit and Close commands so they resemble &Microsoft; Office?

### How do I remove template categories from the open dialog.

hint: .templates

&mbtb; &opt;

## Questions and Answers

When I try to load a document, it does not appear in my dialog box, but I know I saved it there (file extensions)

What is a `kwd` file? What is a `kwt` file?

How do I delete an entire frame-set?

By deleting the last frame of the frame-set.

Where can I get updates?

How do themes affect &kword;

Drag and Drop with &kword;

How do I insert a new frame into a frame-set between two frames that already exist?

## Credits and Licenses

&kword; Copyright 1999-2001 by Reginald Stadlbauer reggie@kde.org

### &kword; Developers

- Reginald Stadlebauer reggie@kde.org

- Thomas Zander zander@earthling.net

- Laurent Montel lmontel@mandrakesoft.com

- David Fauredavid@mandrakesoft.com

- Torben Weis weis@kde.org

- Simon Hausmann hausmann@kde.org

- Werner Trobin trobin@kde.org

- Stephan Kulow coolo@kde.org

### &kword; Import/Export Filter developers

- Shaheed Haque srhaque@iee.org

- Enno Bartels ebartels@nwn.de

- Nicolas Gouttenicog@snafu.de

- Michael Johnsonmikej@xnet.com

- Wolf-Michael Bolle Bolle@ID-PRO.de

- Robert Jacolin rjacolin@ifrance.com

- Matthias Kalle Dalheimer mailto:kalle@dalheimer.de

### &kformula; developers

- Andrea Rizzi rizzi@kde.org

- Ulrich Kuettler ulrich.kuettler@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

Documentation by Mike McBride

&underFDL; &underGPL;

## Installation

### How to obtain &kword;

&kword; is part of the &kde; project http://www.kde.org. &kword; is located in the &koffice; package which can be obtained from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the &kde; project.

### Requirements

In order to successfully use &kword;, you need:

- &Qt; Toolkit 2.3.3 or later. This can be obtained from Trolltech.

- &kde; 2.2 libraries (kdelibs) and the &kde; 2.2 base package (kdebase). These can be obtained from the &kde; web page.

- &GNU; c++ compiler. For help on obtaining this, please refer to your installations documentation.

- `autoconf` and `automake`

All required libraries as well as &kword; itself can be found on The &kword; home page.

### Compilation and Installation

In order to compile and install &kword; on your system, type the following in the base directory of the &koffice; distribution:

    % ./configure
    % make
    % make install

Since &kword; uses `autoconf` and `automake` you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the &kde; mailing lists.

## &kword; Command Line Options

You can specify some initial actions for &kword;. The two most commonly used options are discussed below with instructions on finding help on the rest of the command line options.

Probably the most common command line option used is to specify the file to edit.

Example:

    $ kword Resume.kwd

This will cause &kword; to load `Resume.kwd` for editing.

The only other command line option to be discussed, is where to find more help on the other command line options.

To get detailed help, type:

    $ kword --help

This will give you a few subjects to receive help on.

## Pre-defined Styles in &kword;

&kword; comes with 11 pre-defined Styles.

The table below provides you a quick glimpse of the formatting that is predefined for these styles.

Style | Characters | Paragraph | Borders
--- | --- | --- | ---
Standard | Times 12 Point Regular Style | Left Justified | None
Head 1 | Helvetica 24 Point Bold | Left Justified Arabic Numbering (Chapter Numbering, Depth 0, Start with 1) | None
Head 2 | Helvetica 16 Point Bold | Left Justified Arabic Numbering (Chapter Numbering, Depth 1, Start with 1) | None
Head 3 | Helvetica 12 Point Bold | Left Justified Arabic Numbering (Chapter Numbering, Depth 2, Start with 1) | None
Enumerated List | Times 12 Point Regular Style | Left Justified Arabic Numbering (List Numbering, Depth 0, Start with 1) | None
Alphabetical List | Times 12 Point Regular Style | Left Justified Lower Alphabetic Numbering (List Numbering, Depth 0, Start with a) | None
Bulleted List | Times 12 Point Regular Style | Left Justified Open Circle Bullets | None
Contents Title | Helvetica 20 Point Bold | Centered | Solid Borders 1 pt width Top and Bottom Only
Contents Head 1 | Helvetica 16 Point Bold | Left Justified | None
Contents Head 2 | Helvetica 12 Point Bold | Left Justified | None
Contents Head 3 | Helvetica 12 Point Italics | Left Justified | None

## Import/Export Filters

### Abiword Filter

Status

  The Abiword filter is in the early stages, and should be used with caution.

Developer

  Nicolas Goutte nicog@snafu.de.

Abiword Homepage

  http://www.abisource.com

#### Import Abiword files into &kword;

Features

- Import text.

- Can import simple formating (font name, font size, bold, italic, underline, colour, subscript superscript).

- Can read gzip-compressed files (just use `.abw.gz` or `.zabw` as an extension of the filename!)

Still to be done.

- Multiple columns

- Styles

- Images (PNG)

- Stop &kword; from crashing when importing wrong documents.

- Many other things...

#### Export &kword; files into Abiword files

Features

- Export text.

- Can export simple formating (font name, font size, bold, italic, underline, colour, subscript superscript).

- Can write gzip-compressed files (just use `.abw.gz` or `.zabw` as an extension of the filename!)

Still to be done.

- Multiple columns.

- Styles.

- Images (Only PNG possible).

- Transform tables into something AbiWord can understand.

- &kword;'s DTP modus (How can you export that?)

- Many other things...

### Applixware Filter

Status

  The Applixware filter is in the early stages, and should be used with caution. This is currently an import only filter.

Developer

  Enno Bartels ebartels@nwn.de.

Applixware Homepage

  http://www.vistasource.com/

#### Import Applixword files into &kword;

Features

- Can import simple text from Applix Word documents

- Can convert all special characters

- Tests the headline of the document

- Now read a line and not a single character

- Ignores text in style block.

- Ignores text in header/footer block

- Can detect embedded applix objects

- Reads a full applix tagline for all lineread operations. It can be one or more lines to get one tag.

- Can differ betwen textstr end and(") and applix quotes (/").

- Can read the color block and converts cmyk to rgb.

- Font size, bold, italic, underline, fontcolor, fontfamily.

Still to be done.

- Get format and style information and add this into &kword;

- Textblock style, endof line - what is a paragraph

- Tabulators

- Header and footer

- Embedded applixwear objects

- Linked objects - &eg; pictures

- add endoffile checking with dialog in do-while loops

#### Export &kword; files into Applixware files

Not currently available.

### ASCII Filter

Status

  The ASCII filter is complete and fully functional.

Developer

  Wolf-Michael Bolle Bolle@ID-PRO.de, Werner Trobin wtrobin@mandrakesoft.com, Reginald Stadlbauer reggie@kde.org, Nicolas Goutte nicog@snafu.de

#### Import ASCII files into &kword;

All text is imported into &kword;.

#### Export &kword; files to ASCII files.

All text is exported into an ASCII file.

### HTML Filter (HTML 4.01)

Status

  The HTML filter is in the early stages, and is being rewritten. It should be used with caution.

Developer

  Nicolas Goutte nicog@snafu.de.

HTML homepage

  http://www.w3.org/TR/html401

#### Import HTML files into &kword;

Features

- Crude!

- &XHTML; 1.0 or well-formed HTML 4.01 only!

Still to be done.

- character references/entities

- <font> tags

- tables

- images

- use all of CSS2 (not just a very little part of it)

- many other tags

- importing non-well-formed HTML 4.01 or older

#### Export &kword; files into HTML

Features

- Export to HTML 4.01 or &XHTML; 1.0 documents

- Character formatting (not in Spartan mode)

- Partial CSS2 support (still no style sheets)

Still to be done.

- Finish the complete re-write

- Fix white space problems (space at start, space at end, multiple consecutive spaces)

- Other Unicode encodings (&eg; UTF-16)

- Other non-Unicode encodings (&eg; ASCII, Local encoding)

- Tables

- Images

- Lists

- Special treatment for paragraphs in fixed fonts (needed or not?)

- CSS2 (treatment)

- Have a correct font size algorithm

### LaTeX Filter

### Maker Interchange Format (MIF)/Adobe Framemaker Filter

Status

  The MIF filter is in the early stages and should be used with caution.

Developer

  Matthias Kalle Dalheimer kalle@dalheimer.de>

Adobe Framemaker Homepage

  http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/main.html

#### Import MIF files into &kword;

All text is imported into &kword;.

#### Export &kword; files to MIF files.

Not currently available.

### Rich Text File (RTF) Filter

Status

  The RTF import filter is not currently functioning. The Export filter is working, but has some known limitations. It should be used with caution.

Developers

  Wolf-Michael Bolle Bolle@ID-PRO.de and Michael Johnsonmailto:mikejl@xnet.com.

RTF File Format Page:

  http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/RTF/

#### Import RTF files into &kword;

This is currently not functioning

#### Export &kword; files into RTF

Features

- Unicode to ANSI conversion.

- Text formatting. (font, size, weight, italic, undeANSIe, &eg;.)

- Paragraph numbering. (Head 1,2,3 Numeric, Alpha, Roman, bullet)

- Multi level paragraph numbering. (1.2.5, &etc;) Doesn't work properly

- Table presentations (with cell borders).

- Page sizes.

- Margins.

- Document information. (author, title, &etc;).

- Tabulator tags.

- Page headers.

- Page footers.

- Paragraph borders.

- Colored text and borders.

- Date markers.

- Time markers.

- Page numbers.

Still to be done.

- Footnotes and endnotes.

- Multi column.

- Text boxes.

- Pixmaps.

- Kpart inserts (&kspread;, &kpresenter;, &etc;).

- Page hard breaks.

- Identification of the ANSI code page.

- Multi-strike markup. (no current plans).

- Bidirectional markup. (no current plans).

### Star Writer Filter

Development has begun, but Star Writer Files are currently not supported.

### &Microsoft; Word 97 and Word 2000 Filter

Status

  The &Microsoft; Word 97/2000 export filter is not currently functioning. The import filter is working, but has some known limitations. It should be used with caution.

Developers

  Wolf-Michael Bolle Bolle@ID-PRO.de and Michael Johnsonmailto:mikejl@xnet.com.

&Microsoft; Word File Format:

  Can be located within &Microsoft;s MSDN, but rumor has it that it may have been lost or removed.

#### Import &Microsoft; Word files into &kword;.

Features

- numbered headings

- lists (bulleted, numbered, lettered)

- body text with some formatting (bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript)

- word-builtin colors

- tables

- i18n support

Still to be done.

- Embedded objects (with some restrictions)

- Header and footer support.

- many more..

#### Export &kword; files for use in &Microsoft; Word.

This is currently not functioning

## Key Bindings Summary

### Keybindings for Working with Documents

Start New Document | &Ctrl;N
Open Document | &Ctrl;O
Save Document | &Ctrl;S
Print Document | &Ctrl;P
Close Document | &Ctrl;W
Quit &kword; | &Ctrl;Q

### Keybindings for Character Selection

Move selection one character to the left. | &Shift;Left Arrow
Move selection one character to the Right. | &Shift;Right Arrow
Selects all characters from the start of the selection, to the character directly up one line. | &Shift;Up Arrow
Selects all characters from the start of the selection, to the character directly down one line. | &Shift;Down Arrow
Selects all characters from the start of the selection, to the beginning of the line. | &Shift;Home
Selects all characters from the start of the selection, to the end of the line. | &Shift;End
Select All | &Ctrl;A

### Keybindings for Character Formatting

Toggle Boldface On/Off | &Ctrl;B
Toggle Italics On/Off | &Ctrl;I
Toggle Underline On/Off | &Ctrl;U
Format Font | &Ctrl;F
Format Character Color | &Ctrl;&Alt;C

### Keybindings for Basic Editing Functions and Search and Replace

Undo | &Alt;Backspace
Copy | &Ctrl;C
Cut | &Ctrl;X
Paste | &Ctrl;V
Find | &Ctrl;F
Replace | &Ctrl;R

### Keybindings for Inserting

Insert Picture | F2
Insert Clipart | F3
Insert Special Character | &Alt;C
Insert Hard Frame Break | &Ctrl;Enter
Switch to Edit Text Mode | F4
Switch to Edit FrameMode | F5
Create Text Frame | F6
Create Picture Frame | F7
Create Table | F9
Create Formula Frame | F11
Create Parts Frame | F12

## Glossary

ASCII

  Stands for American standard code for information interchange. This is what many people mean when they say plain text. &kword; can read and write documents in ASCII format.

Aspect Ratio

  This is the ratio of the measurement of a screen or document horizontally compared to the vertical measurement. All standard computer monitors have the same aspect ratio, regardless of their vertical resolution. Any &kword; document that conforms to the standard screen will look good on any monitor.

Binary code

  Binary code is the actual instructions for the computer. So if we refer to binaries we mean the executable &kword; program. While computers have no difficulties reading binary files, they are not easily understood by people. Compare to Source Code.

Bitmap Image

  Bit mapped images are composed of individual dots. This type of file is very good for photographs and complex drawings. The downside of using bitmap images, is that when you change the size of the image on the page, there is a loss of detail. The file names of such pictures often end in jpeg, png or gif. Compare to Clipart.

Cells

  Tables are made up of rows and columns of cells. Each cell is defined by a combination of the row and column of a heading.

Clipart

  Clip art refers to vector based graphics. These graphic files describe the picture as a collection of lines, curves and dots. These file formats are preferable to bit-mapped images, because their size can be made larger or smaller, without any loss in quality. The downside of vector formats, is that it can be quite difficult to describe certain types of photographs using only lines and curves. This results difficult, complicated files and most of the benefits of vector formats are lost. Compare to Bitmap images.

Clipboard

  The clipboard is a temporary storage area in memory. Whenever you use the Cut or Copy command, you are placing the object that was selected into this memory location. Then when you use the Paste command, you insert the information from the clipboard into the document. For more information see the section on Cut/Copy/Paste.

Compiling

  When you compile a program, you are converting it from a source file (which is easily edited by a programmer) into a binary file (which the computer uses). If you are planning on compiling &kword;, please try to find a binary version of &koffice; first. Compiling programs is not for the beginner. For more information on versioning &kword;, see the section entitled Installation

Custom Variables

  Using custom variables you can store certain values (&eg; numbers or text) for later use in your document or in a script. If you want to find out more about custom variables, see Inserting Variables.

DEB

  This is a binary file format that is used by Debian and Debian based distributions. This will be the suffix of a file specifically for these distributions. An example would be `koffice-1.1.deb`. For more information on installing these files, refer to the Debian Web Site.

Dialog Box

  A dialog box is a small window that appears on top of your working document. This window usually has questions, information or configuration options related to the task you are performing. When you are finished with the dialog box, it will disappear and return you to your document (possibly after making some changes to the document).

DTP

  Stands for Desktop Publishing.

FAQ

  Stands for Frequently Asked Questions and normally means a document, where those questions are answered. If you have a question to the developers of &koffice;, you should always have a look at the FAQ first. You'll find the latest version here.

File Mask

  A file mask can be thought of as a strainer for you. On the average computer, there are several thousand files. These files are sorted into sub-directories, but it is not uncommon for many users to have 100's of data files in a single sub-directory.

  Fortunately for us, most applications use a suffix to their filenames. By applying a file mask, &kword; will only show you the files which are not filtered out by the mask. (That is to say &kword; only shows the files that fit through the strainer). This can be helpful if you have many files from many different applications. The file mask is incorporated in the File Type line of the save and load dialog boxes.

  As an example. If you use a file mask for &kword; files, the file mask will try to filter out all files that are not for &kword;.

Filter

  A filter takes a document file from one program (&eg; &Microsoft; Word), and filters out the text and formatting information and converts that information into a &kword; document. Filters are used to read and write files for other programs.

Footer

  The footer of a page is an area below the normal text area. Often it contains the page numbering and maybe some additional information. The contents of the footer are normally the same for most pages, and changing the footer on one page will change all other pages as well. See Header.

Frame

  Well, about everything in &kword; is in a frame. Text is always in a text frame. Pictures are in picture frames. Parts are in part frames. A frame is basically just a rectangle that can contain some part of your document. Frames can be moved, resized, deleted etc.

Frameset

  A frame-set is a group of frames which are connected together. If you're writing text that doesn't fit into the first frame of a frame-set, it will continue in the next frame belonging to that frame-set.

&FTP;

  &FTP; is the File Transfer Protocol. It's an Internet protocol that allows you to retrieve files from so-called &FTP; servers. If you want to download &koffice; from the Internet, you'll probably use &FTP;.

Hard Frame Break

  Normally, &kword; automatically adjusts text so it fits into a text frame. By inserting a hard frame break you can force &kword; to always start the next frame in the framset with the text that follows the break.

Header

  The header of a page is an area above the normal text area. Often it contains the page numbering and maybe some additional information. The contents of the header normally are the same for most pages, and changing the header on one page will change all other pages as well. See Footer.

HTML

  Stands for HyperText Markup Language. Most web pages on the Internet are written in HTML. &kword; can read and write HTML documents for publishing on the World Wide Web.

&kde;

  Stands for the K Desktop Environment which is required for &kword; to operate. The KDesktop Environment is user interface which allows users to manipulate files and operate programs graphically. For more information, please visit www.kde.org.

Key Binding

  All of the features of &kword; are available through the menubar. You will find, however, that there are certain features of &kword; that you use on a regular basis. You can bind a certain key combination to that function. Once this combination is bound to the function, you can use it as a shortcut to the function. &kword; comes with several predefined key-bindings. For more information on changing the default key-bindings, click here.

Landscape

  When you have a standard sheet of paper, you can either orient your document with the long side vertically or horizontally. When the horizontal dimension is greater than the vertical, this is termed Landscape.

  Example:

  Compare with Portrait.

Menubar

  The menubar is located at the top of the &kword; screen. You can use it to access all features of &kword;.

  Menubar:

Picture

  Yes, I know what your thinking--Who doesn't know what a picture is? When we speak of pictures with &kword;, however, the term has a very specific meaning and should not be confused with clip-art. Pictures are bit-mapped images. See Clipart for more information.

Portrait

  When you have a standard sheet of paper, you can either orient your document with the long side vertically or horizontally. When the vertical dimension is greater than the horizontal, this is termed Portrait.

  Example:

  Compare with Landscape.

RPM

  This is the binary file format for distributions based on the &RedHat; package manager, a widely used packaging tool for the &Linux; operating system. If you still have to get &koffice; and your system supports RPM packages, you should get &koffice; packages ending in `.rpm`. They're very easy to use.

Scaling Pictures

  Whenever you change the size of a graphics image, you are scaling that image. In &kword; you scale the pictures by changing the shape of the frame which surrounds the graphic.

Source Code

  Source code is the human readable version of an application (such as &kword;). Computers cannot use source code directly. Instead, source code must be compiled into binary code, before use.

TAR

  Tar is a tool used for the archiving of files in so-called tar-files which you recognize by their suffix `.tar`. You'll find &koffice; source and binary distributions as gzipped tar-files. However, you shouldn't use them if there are special packages for your system and package manager. See RPM, DEB.

`tar.gz`

  See TGZ.

TGZ

  Files ending in `.tar.gz` or `.tgz` are tar-files compressed with the `gzip` program. This makes the tar files smaller and quicker to download. You'll find &koffice; source and binary distributions in this format. However, you shouldn't use them if there are special packages for your system and package manager. See RPM, DEB.

Toolbar

  A toolbar is a line of buttons which are shortcuts to more of the commonly used features of &kword;. More information on tool bars can be found here.

  Example Toolbar:

Vector Image

  A vector based graphic is described in terms of lines and shapes, not in terms of dots. These files are often referred to as clip-art.Because of this, Clipart usually scales better than bit-mapped images.

WYSIWYG

  Stands for What You See Is What You Get. &kword; is a WYSIWYG word processor, which means that the document will appear the same on the screen while you are editing it, as it will on the printed page.

&X-Windows; system

  The &X-Windows; System (also known simply as X) is required for &koffice; to operate. More information on &X-Windows; for &Linux; can be found at http://www.xfree86.org