https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160442
Bug ID: 160442
Summary: export "style sheets" and import them -- a long way to
go yet, isn't it?
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: j...@cspv.hu
Hi,
I'm sure that this part of the development is even more complex than other
aspects... But sooner or later we'll get to using style sheets anyway...
So, why not make steps in that direction... or even leaps...
The Master Document already implies that style sheets as such do exist :)
Only we call them templates, still.
I guess, based on just a superficial glance, that there are styles
that are mandatory for any Writer document. This is what makes it (at the
moment, still) hard to make a step toward bare documents with default style
sheets... (instead of templates)
Templates and style sheets (or styles) are totally different things per def.
A template has content elements. It's a page with some elements already in it.
A style or a bunch of them is something that you apply afterwards, when some
content is there. Totally different functionalities. Therefore, one day or
another, it will be necessary to dump template culture and start the new style
sheet culture, which will be cleaner and simpler, like HMTL5 compared to
html4...
This evolution could begin with style sheets...
meaning:
• being able to export them
• being able to import them
• being able to edit them, including copying and pasting sections fro one to
another...
THIS would, I guess, need
• the phenomenon of the bare document
• the set of basic styles that are mandatory to have for any document
• establishing two views for styles:
|-> an advanced view with all the style details, without the editing
option
|-> the "simplified" (valid / practical) view... with editable
aattributes
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RIGHT now, as I see, the style sheet as such already exists, as styles.xml
However, it's pretty messy as it is, especially with all the Asian stuff...
see:
<style:text-properties style:use-window-font-color="true" loext:opacity="0%"
style:font-name="Liberation Serif" fo:font-size="12pt" fo:language="hu"
fo:country="HU" style:letter-kerning="true" style:font-name-asian="SimSun"
style:font-size-asian="10.5pt" style:language-asian="zh"
style:country-asian="CN" style:font-name-complex="Mangal1"
style:font-size-complex="12pt" style:language-complex="hi"
style:country-complex="IN" fo:hyphenate="false"
fo:hyphenation-remain-char-count="2" fo:hyphenation-push-char-count="2"
loext:hyphenation-no-caps="false" loext:hyphenation-no-last-word="false"
loext:hyphenation-word-char-count="no-limit"
loext:hyphenation-zone="no-limit"/>
What I see as a layman is that opacity, for example shouldn't be defined within
a style. Not to mention the Chinese and INdian references... and Hyphenation
methods... which also should be defined per section, whatever...
"font language" also seems made up...
etc, etc...
I mean, there's a lot to do to get to using styles... as style sheets...
I wonder if it will ever happen?
(When I started this post, I thought if was about 1000x simpler to achieve the
goal, exporting and importing style sheets. Now even I can answer: yes, it's a
very long way to go.)
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