Thursday, February 2, 2006 Reinhard Wobst wrote: > It would be nice if one could use character styles to compose paragraph > styles (recently, fonts and font attributes have to be adjusted > manually). One would have less points of change this way.
> In 2004, I wrote a book with OpenOffice (about the editor vim, mitp > Verlag, up to now in German only), and the layouter required that > _anything_ had to be a named style (no native italics, bold etc., > anything with dedicated name). This was so since they had to convert my > draft strongly. I wished I had the feature above then. > Another application: For trainings, I generate two PDFs from OO files - > one with 16pt font for the representation, and then one with 10pt font > for the print handed over. Moreover, the colors in the print have to > be different since the print is black/white. So I have to change font > and color for listings character style and for paragraph style, for HTML > paragraph and character style and so on. A bit error-prone and not so > comfortable. > I understand that this is a change of concept which programmers do like > so much ;-), but it would be a real improvement toward consistent > design. I would like to create one basic character style, derive the > rest from it and build paragraph styles from these character styles. > Font scaling would be _one_ change then. I believe this can convince > people to base on styles only, they realize the comfort. > What is your opinion? Or are there workarounds I have overseen? If I understand correctly, the feature you are suggesting has been discussed repeatedly in the past: the basic idea would be to provide a way to say "this property in this style will not be changed from the same property of the text I am applying this style to". In other words, styles would act more like CSS styles in HTML, and allow things like "transparent" attributes (just use whatever has been applied already) and "relative" attributes (set this to something-percent of what has been applied already). See also this issue, and the discussion linked from there :) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
