Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Styles organization

Dear list: After posting those clueless followup questions, I dig some further digging and found the 
answers. But before I could post back to the list, Michael was so kind as to write to me (inadvertently 
off-list), not only with answers to the questions but with additional info that the current version of 
the ODT spec is v.1.3 (for LO 7) 
<https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/open-document-format-for-office-applications-opendocument-v1-3-from-the-opendocum>.

For anyone else who might be equally as clueless as I was,
- Michael was referring to ODT spec v.1.2 (the version applicable to LO 6) 
<https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office>.
- .fodt files are just the format you get when choosing "Flat XML ODF Text Document (*.fodt)" when 
saving a document.

None of that gets to clarity on my original question, about the relationship between a style's Organizer tab 
"Contains" section and the attributes defined in the style, but that may come from more more 
digging through the spec. If so, I will post back to complete the thread. This is basic to understanding how 
styles are structured and used in a document.

John


On 2020-05-05 23:31, John Kaufmann wrote:
> On 2020-05-05 17:51, Michael H wrote:
> > I tried approaching this from the dialogs, and eventually gave up trying to
> > map it back to the spec.
>
> Michael, I begin by observing that, while you have dropped many intriguing hints, you are way ahead 
> of me, so I hope you will excuse a couple of novice questions.  Like you, I tried working from the 
> dialogs (the user view of the style definition), but you were already a step ahead: to what spec 
> were you mapping? Where do you find it?
>
>
> > However, when I found flat file format, I found that it's easier to
> > understand how it works by opening the .fodt files in a plain text editor,
> > and especially doing 'diff' style comparison between the same file saved as
> > flat file format before and after making only a couple changes to the
> > dialog in question.
>
> Great tip, but [sorry, novice question again] where are these .fodt files?
>
>
> > However, pages are more complex than paragraph styles.  There's 3 (?)
> > different spots that changes to page definition reside in the actual xml,
> > and understanding their relationship is fun..
>
> By "actual xml", you mean the document file? If so, wouldn't the page definition naturally be there?
>
>
> I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction,
> John


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