On or about 3/28/2006 8:38 AM, Rod Engelsman penned the following: > Andrew Brown wrote: >> Rod Engelsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:e09ug3$dhm$1 >> @sea.gmane.org: >> >>> 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. >>> >> >> Didn't we work out a way, on this list some time, of doing this by a >> macro? Not perfect, but a workaround that is useful if you need it. > > What would the macro do? Create a new hierarchal sub-style on the fly? > Otherwise, you may as well just do direct formatting and forget about > the styles thing. > > The basic problem lies in the nature of hierarchal structures. To get > this away from styles for the moment, consider a household budget. How > do you categorize health and automobile insurance? Are they insurance > expenses or do you stick the auto insurance under auto expenses and the > health under health expenses? If the latter, where do you put life > insurance? In this case the answer depends on what gives you the most > useful information. > > Getting back to styles again, as someone else pointed out, styles are > about logical mark-up. Is a passage of text in German any different > because it's in 12-point TNR rather than 10-point Arial? Then why do I > need two different styles for that? Does the logical concept of emphasis > change depending on the font? > > I hope Naomi's suggestion works. I went to bed after reading her post > and haven't actually tried it yet. >
My two cents worth. Having used both methods, as in OO and WP, they both have their place. Styles are fine for the publishing industry, and corporations that need to have a fixed style in documents, letters, etc. But, for my personal use I prefer the WP method of changing the format of individual words, or sentences, on the fly. And if I have to do any editing later, the Reveal Codes option gives me complete control over my document. As a 'personal' user I should not have to be bound by styles. I would end up with more styles than I could remember for what their use is. For this reason and this reason only I think I'll stay with WP for my word processing. -- Ed --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
