Bruce Byfield wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 15:08 -0600, Rod Engelsman wrote:
Robin, It's statements like this that make me believe that you still
don't quite understand the differences between the WP code/tokens and
Writer/Word object styles. You say you understand that Writer has no
codes to reveal, but then you seem to just rename them "pointers" and
continue with the same concept.
I think it's more than that. Most, if not all of what Robin needs to his
work efficiently is already available in OOo, but he apparently wants to
work in the way that he's accustomed to rather than learn any other way.
To each their own, I suppose, although I admit that I find his
insistence puzzlings. Having done the sort of reformatting that he talks
about, I think I can safely say that something like Reveal Codes is one
of the slowest and most difficult ways to go about it.
One thing I know for sure: repeatedly posting about Reveal Code to an
OOo mailing list isn't going to get the feature added to an upcoming
release. Unless I'm mistaken, very few OOo developers read them.
I have used styles on created documents. Reveal codes are great when
you have a problem with formatting. No multiple clicking of multiple
tabs or windows to see that someone had made some strange changes that
were left in by default.
I have a document that has blinking text that I have imported. I
cannot find out how the text was formatted to blink. I have checked
the character styles which is default and the paragraph style with was
heading 1. I highlited the text and looked at the formatting but I
still didn't see the blink setting. In reveal codes I could have
found the exact location where the blink was set as it would have been
displayed.
I could delete the text and then retype the text and then play with
the formatting that the original author had done as they didn't use
the styles to remove just the blink. One simple location.
I have used styles but I am no expert. I have used RC but I am no
expert. I want to work efficiently and I want to be able to use OOo
as it works across all platforms I work with. Word doesn't and
neither does WP. I am a supporter of ODF and I know that ODF specs
are very close to the way Writer works.
The point is if there are strange formatting as I have indicated,
there is no easy way to find them. This is where reveal codes excels.
I love learning but writing isn't my job. It is less than 10% of my
job. I talk to other users and many that have used Word complain
about the way it formats a document. Enough of a complaint to end up
swearing when it screws up their document and won't undo. I have
heard enough people apologize for this already. Most of these people
move to LaTeX. One is trying to use OOo and has even created his own
templates but still has problems of getting imported documents to
formatted the way the original documents.
--
Robin Laing
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