Rory, concerning difficulties setting styles on sections, Do you mean you used multiple sections or did you make multiple copies of the same section?
I am not clear how OpenOffice handles the copying of sections as well as linking of one section for content/styles of another. The ODF 1.2 specification definitely allows section-level styling. The styles that are allowed at the section level are the "text" styles and also a <style:section-properties> element that provides some margin, color, background, and column controls as part of a section style. The question now becomes whether or not any of the OpenOffice.org descendants allow section styles to be specified and what do they do with an ODF document that uses them? (You may read in various places that OpenOffice and LibreOffice provide full implementations of ODF. I see those claims too. I don't make them.) - Dennis ANALYSIS In the ODF 1.2 specification, section 5.4 on <text:section> elements stipulates that "Sections specify formatting properties for a region Of text or text that is automatically acquired From an external data source or document, or another Text section." The <text:section> start tag may have a <text:style-name> attribute for introducing a named style at the section level. That style name specifies a "section family style" for a section. However, the style:family attribute does not have "section" as a specifiable family in the text of section 19.476, although the schema does define "section" as a specifiable value. Furthermore, section 16.28.3 specifies how to tell a section style, but nothing about what they might have in them. However, section 16.27.28 on the <style:text-properties> element specifies that this element can specify formatting properties for text and for sections. It can be used with a <style:style> definition element of style:family="section" then. -----Original Message----- From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 11:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Section styles? I recently had to make a trial document for a forum user. In it I used multiple copies of a section. Is there any reason why one cannot have Section styles (similar to Paragraph, Page, List styles etc), so that it would not e necessary to create each such repeated section from scratch? I am looking into the OpenDocument definitions; I know that Rob and Dennis (possibly other list-members also) have experience with the OpenDocument format and wonder if they may remember why this was not included in the specification? -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
