Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I am thoroughly convinced that styles are superior to plainly marking
> up each section as you go along. However, I am finding it _very_
> difficult to get into the habit of actually using styles because there
> does not seem to be a way to look at a document and see at a glance
> which styles are applied where.
> 
> Is there some "code view" in Open Office, similar to looking at HTML
> or LaTeX code, that I cold use to see my styles at a glance? I know

I think in word processors it is called "reveal codes". I faintly recall
that WordPerfect was the *the* wordprocessor to use codes. One could,
IIRC, write the whole document using codes, something like a LaTeX
document today. A bit off the track: sometimes I think WP may have made
a better word processor than OOo had it been released under an open
source licence. It was quite powerful and stable, some people still
swear by it.


> that ODF is XML but I do not have the resources to write a parser, in
> any case, I would prefer that the tool be part of OOo where I could
> switch views at a glance.

I am not sure you can do it exactly this way. But perhaps Navigator
(CTRL+F5) can help you a great deal in view the headings.


> I ask because I recently had to present a long document where the
> usage of style was important, as I did not know the (printed) format
> before I started writing. But in the end I did it in HTML with CSS,
> because of the ability to easily see what everything is when I need
> it. Yes, I typed out the HTML and CSS by hand in a regular text
> editor.
> 

Oh boy! Not an efficient and an unusual method to accomplish this.



Good luck.
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