2009/1/20 Gary Schnabl <[email protected]> > Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > >> Gary Schnabl wrote: >> >>> While conducting a typographic study, I noticed that OOoHeading--the >>> parent of the OOoHeading 1, OOoHeading 2, ... paragraph styles--had >>> OOoTextBody as its parent. Was there ever a good reason for our doing so? >>> >>> OOoTextBody is a serif typeface, and the OOoHeading x-type styles are >>> sans serif. Is OOoHeading inheriting much of anything useful for our >>> purposes from OOoTextBody? >>> >>> While altering the OOoTextBody from its single leading to a fixed leading >>> set at 120% (not proportional), that would wreak havoc with its OOoHeading >>> child and carry it through to its children heading styles. I do not consider >>> that to be a good feature in case any leading changes were ever implemented >>> to the body text. Nor is linking the body text style to heading styles, in >>> general. >>> >> >> Gary, I thought Michele had been tweaking at least some of the styles in >> the template, including their inheritances, but I don't know if he had >> worked on that specific one. It may just be a historical artefact; if so, >> any reasoning behind it is probably lost in the mists of time. >> >> Michele? >> >> --Jean >> > The way it's currently set up is that if the body text's leading is altered > to fixed (not a bad thing to do for achieving "perfect" registration across > pages, etc.), then the tops of the OOoHeading x paragraph styles have their > tops clipped, having inherited the fixed leading characteristic from > OOoHeading. > > So, having the OOoHeading paragraph style parent for the OOoHeading x > styles linked to the OOoTextBody is not a smart thing to do. Besides, there > appears to be no real gain for linking the heading styles to a text body > style anyway. Typically, the heading styles will use a different typeface > style (serif vs. sans-serif) and most probably a different typeface family, > so linking them seems to be restrictive. > > I plan to go into the OOoAuthors template and rectify that linkage, in > addition to making some changes to remove minor cosmetic unbalances in > vertical spacing among paragraph styles. > > Gary > > -- > > Gary Schnabl > 2775 Honorah > Detroit MI 48209 > > Hello Gary,
Indeed, when updating the template I thought it was a good idea to link all the styles we use to a single style so that a single change in the font size would have rippled across the whole document. I noticed that the Heading style is linked to the default and therefore I did not think it would have been a big problem. You are right in saying that if we use the register true option we may get problems, however when I tried to do that during my experimentations I noticed that problems occur anyway when inserting in-line icons pictures in the text. Unfortunately OOo (just like MS Office Word) does not allow for a vertical justification of the paragraphs (this is how you can quickly tell if a document has been created with a "proper" DTP or with a word processor). As I wrote above, the main advantage of the linkage (as well as of using percentages rather than absolute values is to be able to switch from one font size to another in a single place. This is very useful for when you want to switch from the "on screen" layout to a "book" layout, but of course it is not essential. If you go ahead and change the template please let me know as there is a further modification to be made to the numbered paragraph styles used in tips/notes/caution where, because of the table padding, the second line of a numbered item is slightly misaligned. Cheers, Michele
