Hi! On 2020-02-27 21:20, Shivam Kumar Singh wrote:
My name is Shivam Kumar Singh a second year student from IIEST Shibpur, India. I am highly interested in the LO code base and would like to contribute to it in GSoC 2020. I have been working on EasyHacks for about some months now and have recently got an InterestingHack merged. Please have a look at my contributions here https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/q/owner:shivamhere247%2540gmail.com
Thank you!
For GSoC I am interested in "Styles Inspector" and "Styles Highlighter" project. The purpose of the project is to understand the layout of any document. There's a lot of formatting done in Character Styles, Page styles which changes the appearance and we want them at one place so that its easier for the user to learn the changes. I went through Heiko's blog and wanted to discuss some things with you. The Inspector basically gives an overview of all the formatting done in text whereas Highlighter tells us about all "in the document what styles are applied". I didn't understand this part. We are not talking about Character or Paragraph styles as we are handling them in the Inspector. Are we talking about page styles here ?
To the contrary, we are talking about Character / Paragraph styles here. The "Highlighter" is intended as kind of "color map" that allows you to see *where* are the bounds of differently-formatted parts of text, while "Inspector" should show you which are the specific properties applied at a given *point* (cursor position) coming from various levels.
Also there's a part of Direct Formatting in the Style Inspector, which overrides both Character and Paragraph Styles, So Basically what we are viewing currently in the document is the Direct Formatted Style and all other applied styles have been overshadowed. If so don't you think there should be more options like Indent or Alignment in Direct Formatting Column too ?
Of course every level should show every applied setting (it might require collapsing/expanding to be manageable).
Currently I am focusing on the Styles Inspector part. I would be great if we could discuss it furthur. My nick on IRC is shivam_.
Great; you know how to communicate there :-) But I suppose that high-level decisions would be best discussed here on mailing list, to not be lost in the short IRC memory :-) -- Best regards, Mike Kaganski
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