https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=128477
--- Comment #17 from Bastendorf <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Peter from comment #16) > Actually I like Bastendorfs vision. But for me this are not good use cases a > developer can take and set up. It is not elementary enough for me. > > Bastendorf, I hope you are willed to spend some time in helping me to > brainstorm your Ideas a bit so I can turn your request into something that > we all like. Thank you for the vote of confidence! I slept pretty good last night, which is rare for me, so I'm in better spirits and should be able to assist in some way. > So first of all feature names are important. As AutoFormat has been taken by > a similar but different feature, I would like to change the name from > AutoFormat to AutoStyles. Also I suggest we split the Autostyle feature and > the custom in 2 parts, And keep the latter a bit more general, as a request. Oh, is it? I actually wasn't aware AutoFormat already existed. I've never run into it before. I like AutoStyles, it puts across the right idea, and might even be more easily recognized by veteran and pro users than AutoFormat > Autostyles: > As a user I can setup a a word sentence and apply a style to the word. As > the user types word the word completion suggest a Formated alternative next > to the default styled value. The word completion would act as AutoComplete does already, right? Or would this be like a drop down list as seen in Visual Studio when you start to type a built in function that it recognizes? A drop down list might be harder to program, but I picture people having multiple different styles for the same word, and a drop down list being a more effective way of suggesting the change. Exactly like in Microsoft Visual Studio, (coding tutorials can be looked up if you don't have ready access to VS, those usually show what I'm talking about in action) a little box would show up with all suggestions in it. The user would then click one of them, and the word would be completed, along with the format. I can understand if the drop down list idea is too much to code. Either way, I like your idea for this. > Custom AutoCorrect / AutoStyles / AutoFormat (in the following summarized as > AutoChange) sets > As a user I want to create different sets of AutoChange Lists, that can be > applied to a document in addition of the generic Lists which are always > applied if the feature is active. This is an interesting idea. Would this be accessed similarly to the styles window, where a window pops up and these custom sets are all listed so the user can hot swap to them depending on their needs/document? And am I right in assuming, from your description, these would augment the already functioning AutoStyles from above? If I've got that right, it sounds really interesting. I like it, but I'd like to add maybe some hoykey method of switching between these. Maybe something like CTRL + Shift + 0-9 to switch between up to 10 of them? Or alternatively, the hotkey to switch to a different set from the list to be set up by the user in order to make it easier for them to change to whichever one they need. Alternatively, a drop down menu, like with styles, could be added to the top bar, and the user would simply click a down arrow and pick a custom set from the list. Or even a side box, where the Proterties, Gallery, Styles, and Navigator boxes all sit. > Does my understanding go into the right direction? Or did I get something > wrong? > > Note: I put this on Accepted, because I think this is a nice feature. Open > to me is if this are basic features or are they more special and should be > added as extensions. You got everything perfect. Sounds exactly like I was picturing it, but a little less simplified, and therefor more practical. As a game developer, I see this as a basic feature. This should really be accessible to everyone from the start. I get that not everyone will use it, for the longest time, I didn't use styles, or the navigator bar, however, I do know many people, like myself, who use Open Office Writer for taking notes and outlining campaigns and screenwriting/playwriting, will be using it frequently. But what do I know? I'm just a civilian. I'll leave this up to the higher-ups of the team to discuss and decide. Thank you again for giving my idea a chance! :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
