Barrie Backhurst wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 13:24 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
Just picking up on this thread from back in March (and elsewhere),
what I'm looking for is NOT reveal codes -- anyone can get them from the
XML -- but a margin display of the style used against each
paragraph-level object in my document, so I can see at a glance what
named style has been applied and where, without having to select it and
see what gets highlighted in the Style dock.
Word does this in the Normal display if you set the Style Margin Width
to a non-zero value, but OO doesn't seem to be able to show this info
(unless I've missed it somewhere).
I don't think it is possible via the interface.
OK, thanks. That's a pretty fundamental omission if the intention is to
encourage people to use named styles for consistency. If the only way to
see what style has been applied to a specific chunk is to highlight it
and bring up the Styles window each time, it's just going to be too
tedious for anyone to use.
I tried to see if this has been proposed as an enhancement but I don't
see it anywhere. I'm not familiar enough with the interface API yet to
know if it's possible to write this as a plugin or not.
A possible workaround would be to produce a template with duplicates of
your existing styles, perhaps naming them "X" and "draft_X". Apply
different backgrounds to the draft styles, you could use colour or
images with appropriate text. Once your document is finished, use "Find
and Replace" with the style option enabled, to replace the draft styles
with your original styles.
That's a nice idea, but the objective is simply to be able to provide
authors with a template for a particular class of document, and have
them apply styles as they write, but to have the name of the style they
have applied to each chunk displayed in the margin, exactly as done in
Word (one of the few things they got really right for once). Without
this visual confirmation, OO is only marginally usable for consistent
styling.
///Peter
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