Michele Zarri wrote:
On 1/10/07, Arnold Huzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter Flynn schreef:
> 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.
The applied style of a paragraph is shown in the toolbar. You only need
to put the cursor in the specific paragraph.
>
> Without this visual confirmation, OO is only marginally usable for
> consistent styling.
Consistent styling is something the author must do himself. If you want
them the follow a certain pattern then you can define this pattern in
the styles. For example if you want a Header1 to be followed by Text1
and then by Text2, you just put it in the definition of the style.
If you want to learn more about styles and the way OO is handling them
take a look on this site:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html at
chapter 13 of the OO-guide or chapters 6 and 7 of the Writer-guide
Arnold Huzen
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Hello Arnold,
I agree with you that the author should be responsible for the consistency
of the documents and management of the styles, but I find myself often
editing documents that I did not write or that I wrote in different stages.
Also, sometimes I find out empty paragraphs that are formatted with, say
Heading x style which mess up the outline numbering but that are difficult
to spot because they are empty.
In summary all I want to say is that I also find this feature quite useful
and if someone is going to create a request for it, I will give it my 2
votes.
Cheers,
Michele
Look at issue 3395 and see if that is in your line of thinking. Look at
the images that I uploaded as examples in a way of a compromise.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3395
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Robin Laing
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