Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>> > The problem is this kind of linking is strictly hierarchical, you >> > have to think beforehand how your styles will be combined, and if >> > you change your mind later (or inherit the document of someone >> > else) the whole style hierarchy must be redone. >> > >> >> Sorry to keep banging on here, but I have demonstrated a way around >> this problem and it is important. > > Sure. It's a pity you have to do it voa macros though. That's out of > the reach of many users. > > This is one of the things that Laurent Godard's new project -- whether it's called scripting, extensions, addons or anything else -- should be helping with. Ideally this kind of trick will end up there, all nicely packaged and easy to download and install for anyone who wants it. The bits are all there to make this possible. I know that hardly anyone can write macros, and the overwhelming majority of users can't even install them, though that isn't really very much trouble for anyone sufficiently motivated, as a translator would be. But if the business of installation is made as simple as "go to this web site: click on that button" it won't be so much of an obstacle. I'm pretty certain it is technically possible to wrap the styling routine in something that add a new item to the format menu called "language" which would lead to a submenu that offered all the languages for which the user had dictionaries installed. The point is that this could all be done by non-programmers, like me -- at least people who don't know any C++ and couldn't begin to hack on the main OOo code. (the other point is that I'm too busy to do it right now) -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
