2008/8/24 Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sak wrote: > >> My first question is whether the style template has been finalized yet, or >> if it's still got issues? I remember several weeks back there were some >> issues that were holding up the use of it, so I was curious to know what the >> status on that was. > > Michele and I have been working on it, and I think it's ready to unleash > upon the rest of you. I'll try to remember to upload it later today, and let > the list know when I've done that.
I haven't used the template that much in the past two weeks but it seemed pretty stable. The only problem I have encountered is that when you have nested lists you are better off re-creating them from scratch as re-applying the styles does not seem to be enough. > >> 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. As Jean wrote it is a matter of flexibility (as well as following what the OOo UI already includes). At present we only differentiate the End style (it has a larger space below the paragraph), while Start and Cont. are the same. > >> 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. I am also against having too many character styles. My in house rule is to use MenuPath for every item that the user can select or click, be it a menu, dialog box option, context menu entry and so on... I tend not to use bold and if something requires more emphasis than what OOoEmphasis provides (e.g. in a sentence such as "do *not* click OK"), Gary has created a red coloured text which does the trick perfectly (not sure it was ever made into a style though). > > I'll leave it to Gary and/or Michele to decide on whether to change to using > OOoStrongEmphasis (or some new style) for bolded items that aren't menu > paths. Is there is a way to search-and-replace for *character* styles? I'm > only aware of s&r for paragraph styles. There is an issue open regarding the ability to search for character styles. > > --Jean > Cheers, Michele :-D
