Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles

Le 30/04/2013 13:47, Kracked_P_P---webmaster a écrit :
> I no longer need to write in any "required style or page format. SO, I
> never got into using styles.  But you have a valid point in needing
> students to learn how to use it.  The fact that writing "style"
> requirements change every so often.  I went to 4 colleges and received 3
> degrees.  The problem I had was that every time I went back to college,
> the "standards" for foot notes, indexing, bibilography, and many other
> things I learn in one college English/Writing course changed.  I ended
> up taking English and Writing courses several time to learn the new
> standards that the colleges were teaching and required for any paper to
> be turned into the professors.  Then there are those classes that
> require specific formatting and styles for their paperwork.

This clearly shows that, unless the word processing learning is part of 
the course, the teachers/professors/whatelse should provide a template 
for the paperwork they are requesting.

> The only problem I see with styles is some people may go and make a
> document so complex with styles for "everything" that it creates
> problems for an new user to edit/modify the document with new
> information or reorganize the flow of the document.

Yes, sure.

Any template should come with a manual and/or a refcard describing the 
workflow and the styles usage. The tool is the software *and* the template.

> The point is, styles are great in concepts, but some people can get
> carried away with their complexity.

Sure, too.

People having to *write* shouldn't be bothered with any conceptual 
complexity (the template manufactoring). This should be taken care 
elsewhere by someone else.


--
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux

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