Interesting point, Virgil. I think we need to weak a fine line between providing a tool that we can use intelligently, and forcing people to do something they don't understand. Using styles the right way is something you have to be educated about. Like you, I started by getting the idea that I could change styles throughout the document if I used them consistently. But it took longer for me to really appreciate the need to do functional style definitions. Any character can be bold for a variety of reasons, and the key is to create and use styles based on the function of that element in a document. That way, you can change a subset of all of the bold characters without changing others. But that requires starting to really think about the architecture of your information.
Regards, On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> wrote: > I've discovered another neat reason to use character styles instead of > direct character formatting. We've already discussed the advantage of > changing character formatting document-wide by just changing the style. > > I've always used Ctrl-B for boldface and Ctrl-I for Italics in providing > direct character formatting to my text. I didn't want to be bothered by > character styles. But, on occasion, I want to clean up a document by > removing direct paragraph formatting (Ctrl-M). When I do that, it clears > *all* direct formatting, whether paragraph or character, so I end up losing > all my bold and italics. > > But, I've now learned to use the character styles Emphasis for Italics and > Strong Emphasis for boldface instead of the direct bold and Italics > commands. Then when I hit Ctrl-M to clean up formatting, then my boldface > and Italics are preserved, because they are controlled by character styles > rather than direct formatting. > > This has been a major change in the way I've worked over the years, but I > think as I get used to it, I'll really like it and the greater control I'll > get over my work. > > What's interesting is that this is the way LaTeX editors like LyX work by > default. It's second nature in LyX, because that's the *only* way it works. > But because of LO's open model (a billion ways of accomplishing the same > task), I've had to adjust how I work with the office suite. > > Virgil > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- Kevin B. O'Brien [email protected] http://google.me/+kevinobrien Facebook is Evil. Cancel your account. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
