Hoping to stop the thread on "reveal codes" and incite the development of a brand new "show (and control) formatting" debugging tool for OOo, I have just posted this piece of thought to http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3395:
---------------- The whole issue of "reveal codes" has been thoroughly discussed in list "[email protected]" and, I'm sure, in other lists over and over again. Please, let's stop it! What is the matter with us all? I have yet to see someone say: "I am quite satisfied with the way OOo allows the users to control the the formating of documents; nothing should be changed!" There is a general consensus for the development of better (more powerful and easier to use) tools for the the control of the formatting of documents (with or without styles). E.g. «(...)Still, a list containing any formatting at the current cursor position (or applied throughout a selected area or selected areas) would not be unwelcome.(...)» Even though people say: «(...) there are no codes to reveal.», the fact is that formatting codes _can_ be created and shown! The famous Ian Laurenson's "Reveal Codes macro" proves it, and the same proof is obtained by doing Format->Paragraph, for instance! So, my request/suggestion to the people that (knows how to) write code to OOo is: “please, develop a tool that «provides a viewing/editing mode that shows ALL the "hidden" formatting info of a OOo document and in a way that could be changed by a power user.» [jmcruz, Issue 50501] “ And, as a final request: ***** Please, change the summary of this issue to "Show formatting info" to please the folks that say: «How many times must it be said ... there are no codes to reveal.» ***** Many thanks! ---------------- -- J. Magalhães Cruz --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ... free, as in freedom... (Richard Stallman) ... private, as in personal... (jmcruz) ... respect, to all animals... (jmcruz) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
