To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66231 Issue #:|66231 Summary:|Removing attributes from styles Component:|Word processor Version:|OOo 2.0.2 Platform:|PC URL:| OS/Version:|Windows XP Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|ENHANCEMENT Priority:|P3 Subcomponent:|formatting Assigned to:|mru Reported by:|maltestien
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 7 19:00:04 -0700 2006 ------- Currently, when you create or modify a paragraph style, character style or list style you can change or add "attributes" to the style. Initially, the text below "Contains:" in the Organiser tab of the style dialogue is empty or contains only a few items. As you add "attributes" the list grows. However, there is no way of removing those "attributes" again. Once specified, they remain forever. Example: I write a document that contains some snippets of source code interspersed into paragraphs of English prose set in 12pt. I format them using the character style "Source Text" and change the fontsize of "Source Text" to 12pt and the fontstyle to italics. Later on, I find myself using some snippets of source code in a footnote and again use the character style "Source Text" to format them. However, as my footnotes are only 9pt the source code is formatted to big now. In theory, I have two options now: - Creating a second character style for source code in footnotes and specify the fontsize to be 9pt. However, this solution makes only limited sense since my real intention is to just use the fontsize of the paragraph the text appears in, that is I really did not want to specify any fontsize in the character style. - Reverting the specification of the fontsize in the Source Text character style to "not specified". This way the source code would inherent the fontsize from the paragraph that it appears in. In practice, I only have the first option as the second is currently not provided by OpenOffice. In this example, it was indeed a mistake to specify the fontsize for the character style in the first place. However, there should be some way of rectifying this. In fact, during the lifecycle of a document it might have indeed made some sense to specify the fontsize for the character style at some point (maybe we wanted source code to appear smaller than the rest of the text) but later the author might have changed his/her mind. Currently, there is no way of doing this properly as I regard the first option above as impractical. The same applies to paragraph styles and list styles and maybe (I haven't really thought about that enough) to page styles and frame styles. It not only applies to style attributes being inherited from surrounding text, as in the example above, but also to style attributes being inherited from a style's parent style. That is, if the user overrides an attribute in a child style that has been inherited from its parent style, there should be a way of removing that override again. Especially with the introduction of the ODF, a highly structured document format, the ability to remove specifications from styles is a necessity for authoring structured documents. Inheritance of styles is a very powerful thing, but it seems that there is currently one piece missing in the puzzle that would unfold its full potential. Therefore, I suggest to add the ability to remove attributes from all kinds of styles. This could be done with checkboxes next to pretty much all of the controls in the style dialogues. Initially, those checkboxes would be set to unticked. Whenever the user specifies an attribute, e.g. the fontsize, the corresponding checkbox gets automatically ticked. The user has the ability to untick the checkbox at any time later in the lifecycle of the document, which could (not sure if it should) disable the corresponding control, e.g. the fontsize listbox. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
