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------- Additional comments from j...@openoffice.org Thu Apr 23 07:20:30 +0000 2009 ------- I am an former WP5.1 user. I understand the discussion and the arguements both for and against this feature (moderne text processing applications are not stream-oriented as was WP5.1), and I suggest that we step back a little bit and realise that the reason this feature was so popular in WP5.1 was not that it made it possible to format without using styles (AFAIR this was called formatting macros in WP5.1). The real reason that this feature was so damn popular in WP5.1 was that it was an easy way to debug your formatting (whether through use of styles or not). It could give you an answer to the question "Why is this text formated this particular way?" Now modern text-processing applications are not stream-oriented as was wp5.1, so "reveal codes" may not really be a good solutions, because there really is no codes in between the characters. There are attributes on characters in stead. Anyway, as ama mentions there really seems to be a general request to show/debug formatting and/or show character attributes in an intuitive way. I suggest, as an alternative to "reveal codes", to reveal this formatting/layout information in a window similar to firebug. Firebug is an extension to firefox, and you can basically click on any content on a html page, and it will tell you the resulting (CSS) formating style, and how this resulting formatting style has been computed through rule of inheritance from parent style classes, etc. Firebug is an excelent tool to format your (X)HTML pages the way you want with or without style. I would like to see similar feature in OOo. If such a feature was there. I would guess that there will only be few WP5.1 die-hards left that would still insist on "reveal codes". I will attach a screenshot of firebug to illustrate my point. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
