On 11/12/2012 2:20 AM, Jean Weber wrote:
On 12/11/2012, at 16:42, Gary Schnabl <[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/6/2012 2:56 AM, Peter Schofield wrote:
Hello Jean
I have just picked up my email and would like to make a comment about
templates.
Is it possible to simplify the number of styles used in the template. For
example, the list style has three styles - start; cont; end. It would be
much better to have only two styles - List1 or Number1 for a normal list
and List2 and Number2 for a sub-list that is indented to start at the text
for List1 or Number1.
Enjoying my holiday. Plenty of sun, swimming and beer.
Regards
PeterS
The primary purpose for the Start, Cont., and End paragraph styles associated with the individual
List n or Number n paragraph styles is to add some extra vertical space after the very last list
entry, regardless of its level (of nesting). IOW, the formatting goal is to have only one such
"End" entry in a multilevel list (with the extra space), and that "End" style
is assigned to the very last list item, which could be at any nesting level, depending upon
whatever it was that the author wrote.
One manner of eliminating those Start, Cont., and End styles for the individual list
nesting levels would be to define the overall list differently--as a block that applies
the extra vertical space automatically at the end of the "''blocked" list
(before the next style following the list).
Gary
That's all very print oriented formatting, which does not necessarily translate
nicely, if at all, into other formats. Seems to me like an unnecessary level of
detail.
Jean
BTW, a simple cheap-and-dirty way to eliminate all those Start, Cont.,
and End styles would be to just add a blank paragraph lline at the very
end of the list.
And again, there is always the conditional-text option for doing that
and other things (such as the Tip/Caution/Note "tables"), where the
conditions are designed for the desired output porting: print document,
ePub, XHTML, etc. Authoring or editing with conditional text is better
than employing a compromised one-size-fits-all mentality, and it has
been around for eons already and is not difficult to learn and master.
Obviously, LibreOffice has developed that additional useful
functionality for a reason...
Gary
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