Hi Michele,
In a message dated 2010.05.24 07:18 -0500, Michele Zarri wrote:
Unfortunately there is not an equivalent to character style in
Impress which would be useful for the in-line linux commands that
you mentioned, ...
(a) Do you happen to know why that is?
(b) Trying to understand OO's design philosophy for styles, I have been
stumped by the inclusion of character attributes - without reference to a
character style - in paragraph styles. I have found nothing in the
documentation discussing why that is, or more generally how OO scopes a
style class. Do you know of a good discussion of this topic?
I do not have the answers to your questions, Hopefully Christian
Lippka who heads the development of the graphics project and who
sometimes reads this list will be able to shed some light as to why,
given the claim that OOo is built around a common core set of
functionalities, character styles exist in Writer and not in Impress.
Yes. If he does not see this, maybe a personal message would be in order
- although I suspect that, leading the graphics project, he can only
provide part of the answers. I like the way you frame the presumptive
context, that "OOo is built around a common core set of
functionalities". In that context, the question is larger than Impress.
I would love to see an authoritative paper on these questions, or hear
a knowledgeable cross-section of OO designers discuss these style issues
at the most basic and general level of cross-application design philosophy.
BTW, I provided the wrong link before, here's the correct one [1].
[1] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19340.
Thanks for the correction.
Maybe it would make sense to re-open [2] which was marked as duplicate
of 19340 but that was more "focussed" on this particular issue (and
still has 6 votes :-) ).
[2] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=57296
I agree that [2] is not really a duplicate of [1], but I can see the
logic of thinking that if [1] is provided, it should serve as a basis
for [2]. The problem will be whether [1] - and especially its eventual
solution - is sufficiently general to provide the basis for [2] and
other issues like it. Again, I wonder whether there is a general paper
on how OO style classes are scoped.
John
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