On 21/03/2006, at 7:44 AM, Rod Engelsman wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
How does Writer know that I want this paragraph to be a hanging
indent and that text to be subscript? Something is telling it
that this needs to be done to be displayed at that point.
I have never looked at the content.xml before but taking a look at
a simple sample of the content.xml, I see that there are xml
control codes within the document.
For underline, there is
<text:span text:style-name="T1">s a</text:span>
For bold.
<text:span text:style-name="T2">different</text:span>
For hanging indent.
<text:p text:style-name="Hanging_20_indent">{a bunch of text}
<text:p text:style-name="Hanging_20_indent"/>
This looks like an expanded version of reveal codes to me. The
problem is T1 and T2 don't mean anything and are not listed in the
styles menus. I do see that T1 - T5 are defined at the beginning
of the content.xml file.
In the content.xml, things look pretty linear to me.
Ah, jeez... Robin. I started a couple of times now to figure out
how to explain this so it makes sense to you. The problem is that
you have a particular picture in your head of how this works. This
picture you have is very sensible and logical and completely
correct--for Wordperfect--but completely wrong for Writer or Word.
These programs are built from completely different design concepts.
One consequence of this is that the relationship between Styles and
direct formatting is completely opposite in the two paradigms.
How about this one - Wordperfect's design is based on travel using a
horse, Word and Writer are based on an automobile. Although some of
the principles are the same - they both take fuel, both move from
point A to point B, both need maintenance etc - the fundamental
design and internal workings are different. You cannot say that
because the car (Writer) does not allow you to use hay for fuel,
there is a problem with the car! The design, implementation and
internal workings are different, even if they perform the same
functionality for the user.
Any problems with this analogy? :-)
Regards
Jonathon
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