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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Sep 30 09:07:01 -0700 2006 ------- I agree that the “per session” persistence of the filter setting of the “Styles and Formatting” window is something that would be useful, in the meantime this is what I discovered about its behavior, may be it could help a little. If not please forgive me for making noise. I should confess I find the use of the Automatic filter feature on the Styles and Formatting window easy, as soon as you have figured out how to bend it to your needs. The behavior I'm going to describe is actual in 2.0.3, I don't know for the old version to which this issue refers to. There is a relationship between the filter and the styles it displays, though I have not found any documentation explaining it clearly. According to the On Line Guide, Automatic is: quote Automatic Displays styles appropriate to the current context. unquote What I didn't find explained anywhere is the meaning of context, when related to styles. Using writer, I found that context means where your insertion cursor is (e.g. where you are typing), what tells that a style belongs to a context is the “Category” drop down list on the “Organizer” tab of the style properties dialog window (in Stylist right click and select Modify... to open it). For example a text in the category “Text Styles” will show up in the Automatic filter whenever the cursor is inside a text. Whereas the styles belonging to the category “Special Styles” are displayed in the Automatic filter when the cursor is, for example, in a page header. The documentation (as in the “On Line Guide”) is not clear on this respect where it says that a user created style should belong to the “Custom Style” category, instead it should belong to a category fit for the automatic filter to show it when in the right context. If you want to discover what style category is displayed automatically when you are in a certain part of your document, simply put the cursor there and have a look at the category of one the styles displayed on the “Styles and Formatting” window. Then set your style to the same category if you want it showed up in that same context. This is a style preparation that should take place when you first prepare the template for your document. Hope this can help a little while waiting for implementation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
