Jim Allan wrote:
Jack S Berger wrote:
Does your word processor have the equivalent of the "Reveal Codes"
function
in WordPerfect?
View -> Nonprinting characters will turn on or off viewing of the very
few internal codes that OpenOffice uses.
Though many Word Perfect users find this hard to understand and to
believe, most modern Word Processors such as OpenOffice.org Writer, MS
Word, and most modern Desktop Publishers don’t use codes internally to
turn on and off features in a text stream.
This means that many of the problems that in WordPerfect can be solved
by finding a character in the text stream and removing it or changing it
just don’t happen in these word processors because no such characters
exit. For example, instead of codes in the text turning on standard
features of a paragraph, internally the text paragraph points to a
structure of properties, and this structure can be viewed through Format
-> Paragraph. The properties you see there and their settings are the
low-level settings within Writer for paragraphs, without use of codes.
Individual ranges of text can also have properties applied to them which
overwrite paragraph properties without codes to turn them off or on.
There are some versions of a macro at
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ which to some degree
emulates Reveal Codes, that is, it attempts to show how the internal
text stream might appear if OpenOffice.org Writer did use codes internally.
Jim Allan
Jim,
I have a passion for Reveal Codes, even after learning styles and how
OOo works. They are a great tool and can be very useful when creating
documents from start to finish. But when working with various documents
from different people and OS's and editor programs, styles can blow up
in your face.
It would be okay if you could delete all styles and start from scratch
but that isn't an option in most cases. Lack of control on documents if
forcing many in my work to move to LaTeX as WordPerfect isn't one of the
"preferred" applications anymore. The number of new LaTeX books that I
have seen on peoples desks are surprising. (I am checking the LaTeX
features of OOo.)
As I suggested on 3395, a method of seeing where the code changes occur
in the XML file would be a very nice compromise. When you import a
document that came from someone else, it would make finding that strange
style (from the import) that is affecting other parts of the document.
The reveal "non printing characters" doesn't do the trick.
I have used the reveal codes macro and it has saved me time when
searching for the elusive formatting change.
I have not used WordPerfect since 1999 and have used StarOffice or
OpenOffice since but I still would like to have a Reveal Codes ability.
--
Robin Laing
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