Actually, using styles depending on how complicated it was might be better, on the other hand if it makes working in a text editor very long winded then there would be little point.
Is there anywhere I can read about this? Thanks, Graham On 1/18/06, Randomthots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Graham Smith wrote: > > Is it possible to add a formatting text tag when working in a text > editor > > that OOo would recognise when the text file is imported into it. > > > > So in the text file you could type something like "/i italicised word/i" > > that would then format the words "italicised word" as italics in Open > > Office. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Graham > > > > Short answer: Not in the way you envision. > > Long answer: Since ODF files consist of a zipped directory structure of > plain text files, it *is* possible to create valid ODF files with a text > editor. But the problem would be simultaneously straight-forward and > very difficult. Internally, ODF treats even simple direct formatting > like italics, bold, etc. through the styles mechanism, so you would have > to work through that paradigm and... well, you probably don't want to go > there. > > -- > > Rod > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
