On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 05:40, John Kaufmann wrote: > makes the task predictable rather than frustrating, and quick rather than > time-consuming.
I'd argue that the task is very predictable, and easy, _if_ one pays close attention to what one is doing, and where one is doing it. I"ll grant time consuming, but that is a side effect of paying attention to exactly where one is in the document. a) You have to know all of the attributes, and functions of each of the character, paragraph, bullet, page, and frame styles in your document, regardless of whther or not they are explicitly used. b) If there is any manual markup in the document, eradicate it, so that it is utterly unrecoverable, Then delete all known backup copies, including breaking any CDs or DVDs that it has been archived on. Then, and only then, can you restart to write the document from scratch, using styles exclusively; > I guess I have been spoiled by a word processor that lets you "reveal" the >details of format constraints Wordperfect has "reveal codes", only because of a number of show stopping bugs that WordPerfect programmers couldn't fix. IOW, this is a prime example of bugs and incompetent programming being defined as a "feature". But, if you want to play with the functional equivalent of reveal codes in OOo, you can do so. However, unless you can write SGML by hand, and have the output pass all known strict conformance tests for the specific DTD you're using, you're better off not trying that feat. jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
