Re: [libreoffice-users] Character Styles

Hi :)
I think you have gone into quite advanced usages of styles.  To start with
i kept it extremely simple and mixed in some direct formatting too.

It took a while to get used to direct formatting too but that was so long
ago now that it's difficult to remember.  Most of my colleagues don't know
key-combos such as Ctrl B.  They reach for the mouse.

Even so people sometimes don't realise those are toggle-switches and tend
to select an area of text and 'have' to be taught that they don't need to.
[Grrr, taught bad habits iow]

Regards from
Tom :)




On 16 April 2014 21:08, Kevin O'Brien <zwilnik2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting point, Virgil. I think we need to weak a fine line between
> providing a tool that we can use intelligently, and forcing people to
> do something they don't understand. Using styles the right way is
> something you have to be educated about. Like you, I started by
> getting the idea that I could change styles throughout the document if
> I used them consistently. But it took longer for me to really
> appreciate the need to do functional style definitions. Any character
> can be bold for a variety of reasons, and the key is to create and use
> styles based on the function of that element in a document. That way,
> you can change a subset of all of the bold characters without changing
> others. But that requires starting to really think about the
> architecture of your information.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've discovered another neat reason to use character styles instead of
> > direct character formatting. We've already discussed the advantage of
> > changing character formatting document-wide by just changing the style.
> >
> > I've always used Ctrl-B for boldface and Ctrl-I for Italics in providing
> > direct character formatting to my text. I didn't want to be bothered by
> > character styles. But, on occasion, I want to clean up a document by
> > removing direct paragraph formatting (Ctrl-M). When I do that, it clears
> > *all* direct formatting, whether paragraph or character, so I end up
> losing
> > all my bold and italics.
> >
> > But, I've now learned to use the character styles Emphasis for Italics
> and
> > Strong Emphasis for boldface instead of the direct bold and Italics
> > commands. Then when I hit Ctrl-M to clean up formatting, then my boldface
> > and Italics are preserved, because they are controlled by character
> styles
> > rather than direct formatting.
> >
> > This has been a major change in the way I've worked over the years, but I
> > think as I get used to it, I'll really like it and the greater control
> I'll
> > get over my work.
> >
> > What's interesting is that this is the way LaTeX editors like LyX work by
> > default. It's second nature in LyX, because that's the *only* way it
> works.
> > But because of LO's open model (a billion ways of accomplishing the same
> > task), I've had to adjust how I work with the office suite.
> >
> > Virgil
> >
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