On Jan 15, 2008 1:47 AM, Scott Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm moving from FrameMaker to OOo, so the notion of paragraph and character > styles is familiar to me. However, the notion of linking styles so that child > styles inherit the attributes of their parent that they don't explicitly > change > is new to me. I'm looking for some advice on whether to use this feature and, > if so, how. The default grouping covers most of my needs and indeed I have often modified the heading and index parent styles. I found combining the linking styles with font size expressed in percentage quite powerful (e.g. heading 1 = 120% of heading, heading 2= 100% of heading and so on...) I have only added the following linked styles: 1) paragraphs with different language properties (English, Italian) 2) characters with different language properties (English, Italian, no language) 3) paragraphs with different font colour properties (for when I write in a frame with different backgrounds) 4) character styles with different highlight colours I also created a numbering paragraph style with an associated list style containing below numbering start, numbering continue, numbering end, but I never used it at the end (much quicker to use list styles).
> Somewhat relatedly, Writer predefines some style names I'm used to defining > myself. FrameMaker doesn't reserve any style names, so I already know what I > mean by "Footnote" and "Footer" and "Header", etc. -- I created them. My > understanding is that I can't use these names for my own styles, but I can > redefine these existing styles to have the characteristics I want. Is this a > good idea? That is, should I leave the characteristics of the predefined > style > names alone and instead create my own style names (e.g., "MyFootnote", > "MyHeader", etc.), or should I go ahead and modify the characteristics of the > predefined style names so they behave the way I'm used to them behaving? Again, this is not a general advice but just my experience: I have heavily modified the predefined styles and then saved them in a template that I now use instead of the default template. I also added some more styles that I needed in the documents I write. Cheers, Michele --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
