I'm assuming that the text in the original message, below, is from Martin. There is a structure being created, even though all you see is your selection, your clicking of the bold button (or use of Format | Character to do the same), and the selected text of one or more characters being rendered in boldface. If it is all in the same paragraph and just text, a structural element is being created. (Otherwise, multiple adjacent structures might be created and they are independent thereafter.) There will be an automatically-defined style that causes the bolding.
If you select the text again and remove the boldface, there may or may not be some residual structure and a different style in its place. This is mostly invisible except when it isn't. Then it becomes difficult to overcome some weird effect that you can't overcome because of this invisible structuring and styling and some sort of conflict that results. You can't even get your hands on what it is. Some sort of Reveal Styling would allow you to remedy that. For good or ill, this is the only way what you did can be represented in the native ODF Format of OpenOffice-lineage software, including Apache OpenOffice. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Martin Groenescheij [mailto:mar...@groenescheij.com] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 20:28 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: reveal codes [ ... ] > 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? That's exactly how you do it in OpenOffice, select the word and click on the "Bold" icon. I don't need a reveal code for that simple task. > > There's no structure being broken, just editing between bold and normal. > [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
