Re: [libreoffice-design] Styles - thread on styles vs direct format

That is interesting... as a person who's never known anything other than 
DOS apps, then MS Office then LibreOffice - I would like to know more 
about how WordPerfect approached styling.

Is there a written article or video presenting this somewhere? If not, 
or even if there is, perhaps it would be useful for someone to give a 
talk - at LibOCon or just online - comparing the style systems of 
WordPerfect and LO (or just LO Writer).

Eyal


On 06/08/2025 21:24, John Kaufmann wrote:
> Funny: 30-year-old WordPerfect got these right - likely because its 
> styles were not categorical (like "Paragraph", with it panoply of 
> attributes to be instantiated, and those attributes often specifiable 
> only within a Paragraph style). For example, a font size style was 
> relative (Larger, Smaller), and a block quote style could specify 
> spacings and margins irrespective of fonts.
>
> The SO/OO/LO decision to be a Word work-alike imposed certain costs, 
> like the styles model. It may be impractical to rethink that decision, 
> but is probably useful to keep these models in mind as we work out 
> solutions.
>
> John


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