https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160746
Bug ID: 160746
Summary: master document / Styles menu (and sidebar) a new
item: "Styles Organizer"
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
hi,
// note:
I'm aware that a style inspector exists, but I find it completely unusable,
cause it gives you an under the hood view, so to speak, and not human
readable.. so I pretend that it doesn't even exist :)
This suggestion is about a different thing anyway...
note end //
This idea involves a new step in separating the Master Document from normal
documents... Cause this menu would, as I imagine, only exist in Navigator...
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What "Styles Organizer" could do:
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• It could list all the styles in the document (the master document) that are
in use.
○ Clicking on one such style in the list would give you detailed info...
how many times altogether in which (sub) documents...
○ from here you could go to a good style inspector that would give you a
human readable overview of the style's attributes... (that are set, not
inherited) or you could go to the basic "styles" menu, (aka Manage Styles),
where you could modify it...
• It could also list the styles which haven't been overridden by the " Master
Style Sheet" defined in the master document template... (those which came in
the document with the subdocuments... and lay low, escaping our control :))
• Here you could do sophisticated global editing of styles...
for example, committing global "changes", without editing the sub-documents...
by "referencing" (linking), or rather, merging some styles... into one of
them...
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an EXAMPLE:
One of the documents have a custom style for quotation, like, "Q-old-text",
used extensively, but haven't been defined in the master document's "master
style sheet" -- so to speak... (that is, in the template)
Here, in the Styles Organizer, you could make all quotations look the same, by
submitting styles "under" master styles...
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I'm aware that this again brings up the style sheet problem...
namely, that we still use templates as style sheets...
But these changes could be implemented, I guess, without changing anything
yet... All it takes is a new menu...
- - - thank you for developing Libreoffice and WRITER - - -
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