Re: [libreoffice-design] Questions about "style" name

Hi all!

Quick reply (tm) ... :-)

Am Freitag, den 29.04.2011, 20:29 +0200 schrieb RGB ES:
> 2011/4/29 Michel RENON <michel.renon@free.fr>:
> > Le 26/04/11 22:04, Christoph Noack a écrit :

[ ... Styles Proposal ... ]

> > > Of course, there are other ways of improving the use of Styles ... but
> > > this needs a whiteboard :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Ricardo, Michel, all - what do you think? Something we might work out
> > > for EasyHacks?
> >
> > Hmmm... Styles are not so easy... (IMHO)
> > So it would be for "NotSoEasyHack" ;-)

Oh, the dev pages are full of them as well.

> > That's why I ask you if it's possible to create a pre-whiteboard :
> > before working on new UI for styles, can we explain/analyse very precisely
> > how styles work in LibreOffice 3.4 ?
> > For example, I have to tell you that I don't understand in Writer :
> > - what are the relations between "numbering styles" and "outlines"

I think here we can rely on the excellent documentation which is already
available. Here is what's available in Writer:
http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Instructions_for_Using_Writer#Headings.2C_Types_of_Numbering

Or, the Oracle guys provide some good specifications for that:
http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/index.html

And, of course - and as Ricardo already started - just ask to get a
feeling how Styles do work.

For example, my two proposals for improving the use of styles would be
(but have to be checked):
      * Pre-define the paragraph styles related to numbering by
        referring to the numbering styles having the same name
      * Manual numberings / lists should inherit the settings of the
        first "corresponding" numbering style

[...]
> Too long for an email... in fact, there is one chapter of my book on
> Writer (Spanish only, sorry) only devoted to how numbered lists are
> aligned...

:-)

[...]

> So as I already said on another thread, we have a powerful, solid but
> obscure system for numbering. Once you understand how it works, it's
> just great, but learning how it works... not an easy task.

True, and I think that's exactly the reason why we should make it more
visible - that might reduce the need for fiddling around with manual
settings without knowing what to do.

> Cheers
> Ricardo

Thanks Ricardo, Michel!

Cheers,
Christoph


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