>>> Another suggestion for the story editor. It would be good if all the >>> hidden structure (control codes, font changes, etc) of the text stream >>> could be optionally revealed (a bit like the old Wordperfect 'reveal >>> codes'). >>> >>> >> There isn't much in the way of "control codes". If you look at an .sla >> file you will see what I mean. One way to control/reduce complexity is >> to use paragraph styles, in which case you can see all the features of a >> given style. >> >> >> > > I think that's a great idea! This seems to be one of the larger areas of > confusion that many people report working with longer text passages, given > the lack of character styles in 1.3.3.x (I just encountered it today > myself). > > There aren't physical control codes in the file, but you could still show > some sort of marker in the story editor everywhere formatting is applied > that overrides the paragraph style--emphasis, change of font, size, > tracking, attributes, etc. Kind of like the red control symbols already > displayed for special characters like line and frame breaks. That way you > could see at a glance any formatting not covered by the paragraph style. > > I'd vote to include this feature even in the stable branch to ease > production use (maybe I'll look at the code myself... :) . > > > Great! That's exactly to sort of thing I had in mind.
> >> Greg >> >> > > Michael >
