Ed wrote:
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.
But, please, WP does have styles with the one drawback that they aren't
available from the context menu (to make up for that, applied styles can
be changed or deleted in the RC frame).
WP with its ability to use characters within styles can be _more_
consistent than OOo in separating markup from content. Suppose you quote
a book title, which should be italic. You botch up a style that applies
italics and call it booktitle. Then you have an essay title. In WP, you
can define a style that applies quotes on both sides of the marked text,
and that style might be called essaytitle. In OOo you will type in the
quotes directly, and you end up with a "meaningful" style for book
titles, but not for essays. How is that for logic?
Now suppose someone switches from OOo to WP and wants to erase such an
essay title. They will find that the "quote characters" cannot be
deleted. Before getting a new keyboard, they can call up the RC frame
and see that there is a style left, and that that style's content are
two quote signs. Problem solved (and knowledge gained).
The same may apply using OOo. Suppose the right hand side of your page
appears to be unused. Did someone change the margins or is this a two
column layout that just doesn't have enough text to overflow, or the
text is protected? Instead of wrecking my brain for the different
possibilities, I'd rather have one place where I can check what is the
matter.
klaus
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