OOo 3.2.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.4 Maybe this should be in the dev list, and if so I hope someone will tell me.
I'm interested in the format of odt files, since I have problems converting odt to clean epub. In particular, I wonder if anyone knows how odt handles paragraph styles. When I expand an odt document, I find several files and folders, and the two which look as though they would be related to paragraph styles are the first part of content.xml and the whole of styles.xml. It seems that an odt document includes details of many styles and fonts on the system in question, irrespective of whether they are included in the document itself. For example, I have two styles in my document, Chapter-header and Chapter-default, both of which can use Courier 12pt or Times New Roman 12pt, depending on the document purpose. These two paragraph styles are there, in several different versions, generally relating to different font styles, including, for example, Helvetica font, which I never use. Similarly there are styles such as Standard, Heading, Text_20_body, List, etc, which I also don't use. These style statements have much in common with what would be contained in a css file for an epub file, and I'm wondering how much of the content of a css style definition can be included in an odt style definition. One thing I am particularly concerned with is that, notwithstanding that I have defined Chapter-default to include a 1.251 cm first line indent, the odt file appears to include a standard indent which is less than 1.251 cm, AND non-breaking spaces, in various numbers from 0 to 6 (so far, there may be more on individual lines) and I'd like to replace all this with a standard first line indent of 1.251 cm or something similar in another measuring system, points, inches, or whatever. Any suggestions gratefully accepted. //James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
