Background Notes:
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I told Olivier Hallot that I would automate finding problems in existing Documents and I am currently looking at fixing problems related to Styles. The intent is to automate (as much as possible) a currently laborous manual process of preparing documents for export to HTML.
I am aware (by inspection) of some styles, for example, I know that a Figure should be anchored as a character to a paragraph with style Figure and its caption should be of style Caption. Paragraph styles in Tables tables should be "Table Contents" and "Table Heading" except when the table is used to position things (such as figures).
As a first step towards GUESSING, which styles should be considered properly used in a document, I need to have a list of styles that are considered "valid" in a document that we produce.
I wrote a Macro that inspects styles to see what styles are in a document. I randomly chose WG7202-WorkingWithTextBasics.odt
I see the following number of styles:
30 CharacterStyles
139 ParagraphStyles
11 PageStyles
7 FrameStyles
17 NumberingStyles
18 TableStyles
288 CellStyles
Oliver did not mention Cell Styles or Page Styles, so I will ignore those entirely. But there qare a bunch of Cell Styles (288) and Paragraph Styles (139) in this document.
After I understand what styles types are of interest, I can document those and isolate them in my macros so that I can flag unexpected styles and we can set them to something that we want. I will automate this process if possible.
Do I care about Character styles. In a perfect world, I will not worry about all of the styles? For Character Styles, however, this is a list ordered by IsUserDefined, IsInUse, and finally by DisplayName.
Name
IsUserDefined
IsInUse
Keystroke
True
True
Code
True
False
Emphasis
False
True
Index Link
False
True
Internet Link
False
True
No Character Style
False
True
Strong Emphasis
False
True
Bullets
False
False
Bullets
False
False
Caption Characters
False
False
Definition
False
False
Drop Caps
False
False
Endnote Anchor
False
False
Endnote Characters
False
False
Example
False
False
Footnote Anchor
False
False
Footnote Characters
False
False
Line Numbering
False
False
Main Index Entry
False
False
Numbering Symbols
False
False
Page Number
False
False
Placeholder
False
False
Quotation
False
False
Rubies
False
False
Source Text
False
False
Teletype
False
False
User Entry
False
False
Variable
False
False
Vertical Numbering Symbols
False
False
Visited Internet Link
False
False