Rod Engelsman wrote:
Jallan wrote: a bunch of stuff I heartily agree with.
I think though that a case can be made for some better way to reveal the
Style that is applied to portions of text. Perhaps an indicator that
would appear in the margins to indicate the paragraph styles in a more
"birds-eye-view" fashion. I'm not sure how to go about "revealing"
character styles and direct formatting.
I don't have a very well-developed concept here, but it might be worth
talking about for an RFE.
Well paragraph styles are now revealed (for the current paragraph or
selected paragraphs when they have the same style) in the list box to
the left of the format toolbar.
Character styles are reasonably easy to find. If you have the character
list in the Stylelist visible, the current character style will be
highlighted and the highlighting jumps around as the character style
changes.
As to direct formatting, beyond change of font, bolding, italics, and
underlining, that is a little more of a problem. Of course, mostly you
can see direct formatting, that is, if you can see that some characters
are superscript or see that some characters are in blue lettering, you
usually don't need anything else to tell you that the characters are
superscript or the characters are in blue lettering. If the character
style in the Stylelist does not change when you move the cursor into or
out of those characters, then they are applied by direct formatting.
Still, a list containing any formatting at the current cursor position
(or applied throughout a selected area or selected areas) would not be
unwelcome.
Language attributes in particular is something I'd like to be more visible.
Rather than revealed codes, in which what you want is likely to get lost
in mass of codes, it might be nice to have something like the Navigator
where you could select a particular type of direct formatting, and then
jump to all cases where it begins to be applied and where it ceases to
be applied. You can do some of this now with the Find & Search utility.
Jallan
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