Hi Rod,
I'm not really following this debate, but noticed something in your post
that I wanted to comment on. Relative styles ARE possible in
OpenOffice... they're just not intuitive. At all! Give me a yell if
you're wanting/trying to set them up.
- Naomi
Rod Engelsman wrote:
The other major deficiency in Writer's styles is the inability to
affect a relative change, a change in one attribute without affecting
anything else. So if you have a document that uses more than one font,
you have make duplicates of things like an Emphasis character style
for each font or point size. That's a big reason why people use direct
formatting rather than character styles; character styles often do
/too/ much.
That's also the reason why you have thousands of Styles in your
template. Undoubtedly, you have dozens of styles that are identical
save for the language setting. With a concept of relative styling or
layered styling or whatever you want to call it, you could reduce that
number to something on the order of the square root of what you have
now, without losing any stylistic functionality or consistency.
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