Hi Michael, I apologize for taking days to reply. As I noted to Harald, I had to get through a week's emergencies to be able to think about what you both had written.
On 2022-10-02 10:01, Michael H wrote:
If you save your document as .fodt - Flat Opendocument, you can then open the document in a plain text editor and see exactly what each style does. That is you'll be able to see the underlying XML spelled out.
Thanks. I did so. It was instructive, but what I learned most (in a couple hours of study) was to get a sense of how much time I might need to build tools to parse a Writer file (which I presume you have done already) -- and I just do not have the much time now, or even this year. (It would be rewarding to return to that someday.) However, regarding the specific question of inheritance (from "-None-" or from "No Character Style"), your answer was particularly helpful:
... - ... "none" means you get the "create new style" dialogs with no parent style filled in. This means the character style definition will be more complete, and rely less on the parent style.
Yes, that I understood.
- the "No Character Style" option while typing doesn't insert XML for a character style, but moves the editing cursor after the already open Character style if you're at the end, or creates an end/open for the style if there are more visible characters and leaves the cursor in between these tags.
If I select "No Character Style" as the parent of a Character style, do I not get the same effect as selecting "-None-"? Thanks again, John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
