On 19/5/14 at 12:05 PM, [email protected] (Julian Thomas) wrote:
.... Is there a better manual than the online help that I'm missing? cheers - jt
The best style manual I have come across was the ancient Hakon Wium Lie's CSS book - and in fact, it's been easier for me to master styles in writer applications after grasping the CSS concept. Of course experience with HTML (from version 1...) also helped greatly, in terms of understanding how to design "structured documents".
It might be easier for you, too, to understand Styles if you look at your document's structure: headings, normal paragraphs, indented paragraphs, bullet or number lists can all be defined as individual "paragraph styles", which then become available for other parts of the document. Or, if you save these styles to a style library, for all other documents. Similarly, you can define "character styles" for things like bold, italic, or coloured text that does not span the whole extent of a paragraph.
I found it was easier for me to work with my own styles. If you take the "New style based on selection" approach, you'll be able to see how attributes are assigned.
I know this is very rough... hope it helps a little bit! marina --- MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.6.8 @martadiello ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
