On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Since this subject is being discussed, I wanted to mention something
> else that might or might not be related.
>
> In both AbiWord and Word, styles can be based on other styles.
>
> In Word, many such derived styles maintain the name of the "based on"
> style in their definitions. For instance, the default definition of
> the List Number (1) style in Word(97) is �Normal + Indent: Hanging
> 0.25�, Numbered, Tabs: 0.25"�.
>
> Thus if, for example, I change the font in the Normal style, the font is
> changed in all the styles that are based on Normal (including the cited
> List Number (1) style).
>
> I haven't yet tried the similar thing in AbiWord, but I'm hoping that
> capability will exist someday if it doesn't already.
Yes. Abiword does this.
>
> I don't know if the style "name" / "style" discussion has any impact on
> this or not, but I was concerned that it might.
>
Probabally not.
Martin
