Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Sak wrote:
Out of curiosity, why is there a Start, Continued, and End style for
list styles?
IIRC, Gary and Michele wanted that to "future-proof" our docs in case
we wanted to use more conspicuously different spacing in the future...
such as no space between list items but a line space after the last
list item -- a style already in use for code listings, btw.
I have not used the new and improved template as yet--at least until I
start in and copyedit or rewrite anything. There's no rush until version
3 is more stable... No sense in continually redoing the "final" editing.
There might not be any difference between the Start and Continued (or
Cont. (with a period, no less--I prefer using that name in order to
agree with this poor choice of wording until it's changed in the UI).
Both forms are used in case one wants them formatted differently. (For
example, Motorola/Free Semiconductor used all three forms for their
FrameMaker tags that accomplished the same purpose as ours.) Then the
reader doesn't need to create a difference set of paragraph style names
and instead, just reformat their definitions to his liking. And those
noncustom style names are already grouped also in the Stylist dialog box
or window.
In the character styles, I noticed that OOoMenuPath and
OOoStrongEmphasis appear to be the same. In the current chapter I'm
reviewing, I noticed that OOoMenuPath is used in a number of places
that aren't actually menu paths, so I was wondering about your
thoughts on that continued practice, or whether OOoStrongEmphasis
should be used for single bolded items that aren't explicit menu paths.
OOoMenuPath should probably be renamed, as the name does not
adequately describe its intended use, which is for icon and button
names and other controls on dialog boxes (as well as for menu paths
themselves). Or perhaps we should have a separate style for those
other controls, even if the appearance (bold) is the same. Personally,
I dislike proliferating styles (even when I can see the reason for
doing so), but that's just my preference for simplicity.
It would be better if the emphasis and strong emphasis types of
character styles were defined so as to only italicize or bolden the
text (having the As Is functionality of FrameMaker in that regard).
Therefore, they could be used alone or in combination for any number
of different typefaces, etc. Perhaps, then StrongEmphasis might be
renamed simply Bold or Strong.
Gary
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