On 11/19/2010 15:13, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
TJ wrote,
The BandIt macro sets the header background (and the border lines) to
a beautiful medium blue that MZ put in his code. If you want the
header to be Gray10%, it's only a one-line change in BandIt.
Michele (and anyone else interested),
I had changed the lines and header background to gray so that the tables
could be used without further processing if the file is used with a
different colour scheme (for example, by the LibO team). Font colours
can be set in styles so they all change automagically when a different
template is applied, but tables don't update that way.
Other groups such as LibO may choose to completely redo the appearance
of files they pick up from us, but I think it's nice to avoid forcing
people to do extra fiddling. They, and we, don't seem to have enough
people to keep the content of the chapters up to date and correct, so
extra time spent on non-essentials seems to me to be a poor use of
scarce resources.
Comments?
--Jean
One glitch remains in BandIt: for some rows and tables, the borders
update as wanted, but for others they don't. Problem probably related to
cell-level settings; working on it.
Paragraph styles should not be used to set the colour schemes. They will
override the table-related settings, but probably not in the desired
way. The sliver of screen-capture in the attachment shows what happens
when the (old 3.2) paragraph style says "Blue" [RGB(0,0,80)] and the
table setting (by BandIt) says "MZ's blue". Notice the light-blue blocks
adjacent to the vertical border lines.
The built-in style "Table" is in the "special styles" category, which
needs some research. I suspect that one can apply a style to an entire
table, if the style is a "table style". I'll play with it.
I quite agree that we should allow changing appearances readily. BandIt
should help make that possible.
Maybe more later; busy, going AFK.
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/tj/
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