Totally agree
El vie, 11-05-2012 a las 09:04 +0200, Peter Schofield escribió: > Hello > > I have been following this discussion and found it very interesting. However, > I would like to make one suggestion for the paragraph styles - KISS - keep it > simple st----. > > One example - why is there three styles for numbers and lists? There should > be just one for each, that is OOoNum 123 and OOoList 1. There is no need for > Start, Cont and End styles if you set paragraph spacing correctly. > > Second example - why do the style names begin with OOo? It would be better to > simply name each style as Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on. This would make it > easier to import the template into other software because other software > normally uses Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on for style names. > > My experience comes from working in MS Word to initially create a document > and then using Framemaker for the publishing program, which my opinion was > one of the best in the market. So easy to compile many chapters into one > massive manual. > > Regards > > Peter Schofield > [email protected] > > > On 10 May 2012, at 23:12, Gary Schnabl wrote: > > > I haven't gotten around to recheck all the list paragraphs styles yet for > > v. 3.5.x--easy to do, using the factory-default parameters. However, the > > older OOo styles (v. 3.3.x) did not have consistent formatting for all the > > Ns, in addition to OOo's having buggy styles that could not properly be > > reformatted outside of a narrow indentation range for many Ns. > > > > IMO, all those list paragraph styles need to be reformatted, according to > > the intended purposes for them by users or template designers, anyway. > > > > > > Gary > > > > On 5/10/2012 3:22 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) > >> Gary, Carlos said thanks on the Users List. Cheers chap > >> Regards from > >> Tom :) > >> > >> > >> --- On Thu, 10/5/12, Carlos Pita<[email protected]> wrote: > >> <snip /> > >> > >> Gary has clarified the issue. Perhaps the styles should all be > >> indented the same by default and just control the interline spacing > >> and things like that. > >> > >> Another related issue is the purpose of the "List N" vs "List N Cont" > >> paragraph styles. From the indentation in the styles one can infer > >> what follows: > >> > >> | aditional space here > >> First item<--- Start style > >> > >> Internal item<--- base style > >> Continuation of internal item<--- Cont style > >> > >> Last item<--- End style > >> | aditional space here > >> > >> That cont seems to be intended to follow the base style is suggested > >> by the default indentation of the manually formatted lists. For > >> example: > >> > >> 2. Iternal item > >> More text > >> > >> Continuation of item 2 > >> > >> The indentation provided by the Cont style is exactly the indentation > >> needed by "Continuation of item 2" in a manually formatted list in > >> order to be left aligned with the item text. But this seems misleading > >> again, because the guide explains that Start will be usually linked to > >> Cont which will be linked to End, for lists where a single style (the > >> base style) isn't enough. Briefly, the alternative interpretations > >> are: > >> > >> Start->base(->Cont)->End > >> > >> vs > >> > >> Start->Cont->End or base (for simple formatting requirements) > >> > >> I'll copy the relevant passages of the documentation for this last > >> issue asap, but you can see that the problem is essentially the same: > >> default style indentation that seems to be at odds with the usage > >> described by the guide, maybe because of historical reasons. > >> > >> Thanks a lot > >> -- > >> Carlos > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > > [email protected] > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
