In a message dated 2010.09.06 16:57 -0500, JOE Conner wrote:
That is a perfect statement of an attitude to which I fully subscribe:
Let's fix it. The reason I have not tackled the wiki yet - either the
Writer Guide or the FAQ - is that I still (after strenuous efforts)
*don't know* how envelopes are supposed to work, or how to make sense
of something that does not make coherent sense. I suspect that is what
people have tried to do, and why the various info sources are
incoherent on the subject. IOW, I suspect that the problem is less
with the documentation than with the design - and that it may go
beyond the "Envelope" page style to more basic issues of how styles
are structured in Writer. ... As NoOp said some time back, it will
probably require digging into the sources - but without design specs,
or some clarity about the design intent, that can be a huge and
unrewarding job.
GOOD LUCK getting anything like that. I have been asking for this for
awhile without success. See for instance this thread:
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=206936
Yes. I followed that thread with intense interest, and filed it in a
special "Styles" folder reserved for such unresolved questions. My
thematic thought on that thread was that it is an essential example of
two more basic issues, the (undocumented) relationship between Paragraph
and List (AKA Numbering) styles, and the relationship between
List/Numbering styles and the menu-based hierarchical (outline)
ordering. If we can get some clarity on design intent with those basic
issues, we can document how that intent is served by the built-in
styles. And, if the design specs are less than clear, that will be
informative too. OO can only benefit from such examination.
John
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