Hi Regina, On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 05:42:43PM +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: > Francois Tigeot schrieb: > [..] > >There's also the matter of Impress: the Style and Formatting module is > >completely useless there. New styles can't be created or custom styles > >applied to the document. > > That is wrong. The Style and Formatting window contains not only the > presentation styles, but the drawing object styles too. And for them > the styles work as in Draw.
It was so obvious for me, I forgot to specify I was talking about text styles. I'm working on a mainly text-based presentation and the absence of paragraph and character styles is driving me nuts. > >The inability to use style in Impress is a real turn-down but I'm afraid > >the problem is bigger than the developer's list. > > "Inability" is wrong, but the connection between master page and > presentation object style is not obvious and the handling can be > improved. To come up with a concept would be a task for UX. Why not just use the same style mechanism as in Writer ? I can't fathom the fact that there are "character" and "paragraph" dialog boxes accessibles from a contextual menu in Impress, but the result can not be associated to a global style in the document. Consistency is very important; how can I be sure some categories of text (say shell command samples) can have the same formating in all the presentation ? Did the creators of Impress expect people to take a 80-slide document and tediously apply the same changes by hand in half of them, right-clicking the mouse 40 times to change the font of one of the text lines ? -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
