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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 10 15:22:34 -0700 2006 ------- I have read and re-read the styles documents for OOo and I still feel that a tool to provide a Reveal Codes type of interface for the styles would be a handy tool, even when using styles. In the Users discussion, it was brought up that you can sometimes notice code changes when looking at View > Non-printing characters. This is true but raises the question, if styles are so good and perfect at controlling the formatting, why would you need to view any non-printing characters? But that is another discussion. This is one reason why I feel that there should be a View > Styles location tool. I will be uploading a sample document that I created two images from. The first image is of JannzRevealCode macro. What this show is a good representation of WP reveal codes but doesn't reflect the styles that are present within the document. The second image is the sample document with added graphics representing the idea of "View > Formatting points" showing where the formatting changes and the type of style being applied. I didn't get to complicated due to time. At the bottom is a dialog box that displays the styles being used with the particular defenition from the content.xml file from where the cursor is placed within "formatting". Now if you look at the line inbetween Para1 and Para2, you will notice that there is a text formatting. This formatting expands over a single character (space). It is little things like this that can cause problems for people doing allot of cutting and pasting between different documents and types of documents. Added info from OOo documents. ---- >From Introduction to Styles. Page 25 Migrating to character styles. Never mix character styles and manual formatting. Manual formatting supersedes character styles. If you combine them, you may end up wasting hours in frustration trying to figure out why your characters styles don't work. --- This raises the question if OOo recommends the direct formatting should not be used, why are the direct formatting buttons provided in the menu bar? -- >From Working with Styles Page 2 Many people manually format paragraphs, words, tables, page layouts, and other parts of their documents without paying any attention to styles. They are used to writing documents according to physical attributes. --------- This is exactly the reason why this discussion will continue. Direct formatting tools are provided and thus the situation of mixed formatting can create headaches. OOo provides a tool to make a mess of styles by default. ------- I have used styles and in many cases I will use them. But many times styles are not necssary for the type of work I do. I need to make minor changes to a document that has been imported into OOo from another source. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
