[authors] 0206WG-IntroductionToStyles.sxw

[Colin J. Williams]

Daniel, I have been using your document to explore OOo 1.9.122.  First, I converted it to .odt. This seemed to go OK except that the hyperlinks from the Table of Contents appeared dead. I have a requirement similar to the example you gave "The title must appear at the top-right of every page except the first", except that I have some text which is to appear on the left side of the header page as well. I find that Left Header and Right Header seem to be mutually exclusive.  Only the last one used of these is effective. It seems that the Format => Page => header/footer operate independently of the style system. When one exports to PDF a thirty page document is produced it looks good except that there are no links from the TOC to the body of the text - I'm not sure whether Adobe 7 has that capability. When one exports to XHTML one gets a 122KB file which Firefox does not undestand ( this is about one tenth the size of the PDF file). When one sends to HTML one gets many files.  Aside from a wonky colon on the title page the rendering looks adequate. There are still no links from the Table of Contents to the detail beyond. There are no links from the end of one chapter to the start of the next.  This reduces the value of HTML for presenting this type of document. You might consider Python as a more reader friendly style of presentation.  This includes a Table of Contents, with links to the world beyond and an Index with links back into the text. Regarding your presentation, it has helped me get a better grasp of style usage.  It would be a little more useful if it included an index and provided a list of the various basic styles (i.e. those included with the downloaded package) together with information about the default characteristics of each style. Thanks for all the work you put into this. Best wishes, Colin W.