On Mar 24, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Ross Gardler wrote:
Clay Leeds wrote:
On Mar 24, 2006, at 6:45 AM, Ross Gardler wrote:
Clay Leeds wrote:
I think the problem is that I'm starting from blank documents
and importing the Forrest-related styles, rather than starting
from the Forrest documents. I'm going to see about modifying
OpenOffice.org startup system, so new documents are based on
Forrest's 'openoffice- writer.sxw'.
That sounds like a good solution. If you figure out how to do
this then a patch for the docs would be welcome.
Editing Default Styles - NeoWiki (from the NeoOffice/J project)
http://neowiki.sixthcrusade.com/index.php/Editing_Default_Styles
The main problem I have with this solution, is that it now starts
with a page full of Forrest stuff (it contains all the content of
openoffice-writer.sxw, rather than just its styles.
Any ideas to improve this?
When the original plugin was created the intention was to use a
template rather than a document. I remember there being a problem
with this, but can't remember what it is - will be in the dev
archives.
If the problem with tempaltes still exists you could create a
"Forrest" blank document as your seed. You'll still have to do a
"Save As" to give it your own name though.
Ross
I think you're referring to a problem you and I troubleshooted
(troubleshot?) in 2004. The ultimate 'solution' I ended up using was
to start from the openoffice-writer.sxw file for *each* document.
This required retaining the Forrest content to ensure the styles
remained available. This was unwieldy. Why? Because (for example) as
soon as the content styled as 'Forrest:Note' was deleted and the
document saved, the 'Forrest:Note' style was no longer available to
the document--even if some content styled as Forrest:Note was pasted
in from another document).
I think this is primarily a OpenOffice.org issue. Nevertheless, it
dramatically affects it's value. It's possible that OOo 2.x fixes
this problem (I'm going to analyze this further).
Clay Leeds
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