> Note that Word Perfect also supports styles, as does modern HTML and > XML, yet they are all obviously code based. Same with LaTeX. > > Using styles is a great help, but it has nothing to do with whether a > system uses codes internally or not. It is misleading to suggest that > there is a choice between code-based word-processing and style-based > word-processing and that styles are somehow a better substitute for > codes. One can have both styles and codes. But the pure code-based > applications are less efficient internally, particular when one must > jump into the middle of some text and attempt to figure out what format > to display based on codes which might or might not occur in previous > text. One needs other means of quickly identifying what the current > display should be, and once one has developed these, one discovers that > one no longer needs codes.
Hello Jim, Apologies if I misled you. All I was trying to say is that correcting "misbehaving text" can be easily achieved by appropriately using styles and not that styles and reveal codes were mutually exclusive. Thanks for the explanation anyway. Cheers, Michele
