Well stated Doug. Thanks Thank you, Frank Dillingham -----Original Message----- From: Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:49:49 To: <users@openoffice.apache.org> Reply-To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: reveal codes
On 01/20/2013 01:51 PM, Eric Fenster wrote: > I wish people who have made some of the comments actually had experience with > the Reveal Codes function in WP. > > First, for those not familiar with it, the Reveal Codes can be turned on and > off and the amount of space (number of lines of text) it consumes on the > screen is under complete control. > > You have unencumbered text in one window, and text with the codes in another > -- IF you want it. > > This is very different from turning on codes like paragraph markers, which > are all or nothing and litter the entire text. > > Second, all this talk about styles is totally irrelevant. Styles exist quite > happily alongside the reveal codes option. > >> But users must not be allowed to make changes at that level [delete]; >> instead, they must be required, having discovered what the problem is, to >> solve it where it was caused. Anything else breaks the structure. > I really don't understand this rather authoritarian recommendation. > > If I write something in bold and want to convert one or some words to normal > type when I review my text, that's my business. Why should I not be "allowed" > to change a word? And if I can do that by simply putting my cursor on a Bold > code and deleting it, what great law am I violating? > > There's no structure being broken, just editing between bold and normal. > > > +1 --doug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
