On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:46, bg wrote: >as a member of the typewriter brigade.
Treating word processors as typewriters is an abuse of both typewriters, and word processors. > Give me "REVEAL CODES" and I will eventually adapt, yea, even unto (gasp!) > the dreaded templates There is an OOo 1.1.5 macro that provides reveal codes for calc, and a different one that provides reveal codes for Writer. With some tweaking, they can be changed for OOo 3.x. Somehow, I doubt that even if you were to use it, you'd be happy with what it provides. > because a properly implemented "REVEAL CODES" provides us with a safety net, > and abolishes guesswork almost entirely. For stream editors, that is theoretically possible. However, OOo is not a stream editor. > then trust entirely to the finished appearance to inform me whether my > formatting decisions are functioning as intended. That occurs only when somebody uses a mixture of styles, and manual formatting. FWIW, if you dock stylist, set it to applied styles, for character formatting, and configure the formatting toolbar to show the name of the style, and the attributes of the style, you'll duplicate the functionality of reveal codes --- if you never do any manual formatting. jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
