The Road to KDE 4: New KOffice Technologies (KDE.News)
KDE.News looks forward to KDE 4, and KWord 2.0 in particular. "
All manner of objects are being converted to the new Flake library, for instance KFormula elements, so you can insert nicely rendered math into your documents without any trouble. This support could make KWord as exciting to use for page layouts as KPresenter, as you are no longer restricted to dull, square document shapes. These changes should enable KWord 2 to behave as a respectable basic desktop publishing application."