Thursday, March 16, 2006 Jonathon Blake wrote: > Robin wrote:
>> I have tried to create styles (which was easy in WP) but I keep getting lost. > How does can one get lost doing [for OOo 1.1.x] ">>Format >styles >Catalog >select style type >Select style >New/modify" ? >> where I go to change something into BOLD or underline >> and find that it doesn't show up as expected. Multiple >> attempts later I finally get it. This has happened in WP, Word and >> OOo. >> This is below the level of a style but with RC, > You desperately need to take the ten hours it needs, to learn what > styles are,. and another 30+ hours to unlearn all of the junk that WP > claims are styles, but is not, and never will. [At best, it can be > described as an imitation of the drunk looking for a quarter in the > light of the streetlamp, even thou he lost the money in the creek, > which is twenty blocks away.] Nice trolling. WordPerfect has had proper character and paired styling since at leat WP5.1 for DOS (first version I used), and paragraph styles since version 6.0 (Hard) attributes in WordPerfect are triggered/selected/(de)activated by special tokens inserted in the stream text. Thus it's obviously natural that a *Style* in WordPerfect is a collection of such tokens. However, the styling in WP is more powerful than that, because you can put any token in a style, including text. And this is something you might need to do, for example to mark speech parts in a novel (by inserting the quotes in the style, where they belong, rather than in the text, of which they are /not/ part of, since they are a visual mark for a conceptual difference). But I digress. Creating styles in OOo is not really that hard, but creating them /properly/ is a PITN with little or no chance to 'backtrack' if you by mistake activate a single extra attribute. To this purpose I have an Enhancement Request up on IssueZilla, number #7861 at http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7861 about an extra tab that should be inserted in the Style Editor to make the job easier for power users like me (instead of an extra tab, it could be a change in the summary tab) There are some built-in limits in OOo styling which make it extremely painful to use, especially when it comes to character styles, namely the inability to be 'transparent' to some attributes (something which both WordPerfect and Cascading Style Sheets can do, OTOH). This has been discussed at length in other threads. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
