At 10:32 -0700 3/5/12, meg miranda wrote: >Some of the larger issues I run into all the time: > >Big irritation that I have, is that the variables are and have been a struggle >to work with. ... Interleaf used to do such a stand up job with variables.
There speaks a true... >Other features that would be excellent to me would be things that focus on >being able to globally manage paragraphs, characters, master pages, variables, >table types, conditional values, graphics settings, anchored frame settings, >and markers. ...Interleaf user ;-) Who could forget the sight of an entire room of tech writers shouting 'What the f***!' in unison when the Interleaf Admin slipped up with a format change. What do we want? We want *live formats*... ;-) >Let's see and another pain in the backside has been finding and removing >paragraph or character styles that are applied but no longer used. Look at SiliconPrairie's (very modestly priced) plug-ins: they offer commands to clean up all that kind of dirt, for character, para and table styles. > We did extensive template clean-up 3 releases ago, but are still finding > interesting ... How about 300+ unused color definitions in one document? ;-) >...settings that deviate from the current template. Even after we believe we >have applied the paragraph style, the old thing still hangs on. I've had to >apply paragraph styles, then apply default character style, then re-apply >paragraph style before things stick. See above: look forward to Happy Days. -- Steve
