Hi :) I think you have gone into quite advanced usages of styles. To start with i kept it extremely simple and mixed in some direct formatting too.
It took a while to get used to direct formatting too but that was so long ago now that it's difficult to remember. Most of my colleagues don't know key-combos such as Ctrl B. They reach for the mouse. Even so people sometimes don't realise those are toggle-switches and tend to select an area of text and 'have' to be taught that they don't need to. [Grrr, taught bad habits iow] Regards from Tom :) On 16 April 2014 21:08, Kevin O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
