Monday, September 19, 2005 Chris BONDE wrote: > I have found that the WP (Corel) reveal very helpful in > understanding what is going > on. Not that I fully understood, but it did help me > save many a file. It allowed me to > find some of the things that were causing problems.
> Now, I think that styles is the way to go. WordPerfect has a style feature which is as good as the one in MS Word and OOo Writer, if not more powerful. The use of Reveal Codes in WordPerfect is not something only useful with "hard formatting"; indeed, Reveal Codes also improves the creation, editing and application of styles: Reveal Codes while editing text shows you exactly where the style span begins and end, and when editing the style itself Reveal Codes allow you to see which (hard) formatting the style applies, and how. So, really, the use of style vs hard formatting is orthogonal to the advantage of having a Reveal Codes features. > HOWEVER, > this subject is very, very etc, > difficult to learn. I have downloaded many a file on how but am unable to > understand and learn. > What do you suggest for us'n pour folk You can think of styles as a way to separate *logical* markup, defining the structure of a document, from *visual* markup, i.e. the way the various elements of a document are visually made distinct. Styles form the pairing, i.e. define "this logical structure should look such and so". For example, you can choose the logical markup "Chapter title" to look bold, 20pt, centered. If you then change your idea and want it to be in a different font too, you change the *style* "Chapter title": all the text elements marked with that style (i.e. all chapter styles) will change in a consistent way. Similarly, for example, a logical markup is "quotations". Visual markup is "smaller font, reduced margins". So you create a style Quotation and set it that way. If you later want to change the visual layout (e.g. by adding a frame or whatever) you change the Quotation style and all quotations will change accordingly. If you are currently a WordPerfect user, you may find yourself more comfortable learning styles in WordPerfect first --the principle is the same-- and then learn how they are created and edited in Writer. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
