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------- Additional comments from mest...@openoffice.org Tue Feb 16 16:27:57 +0000 2010 ------- - Thank you for the links jctbvk. These are informative links to this subject. fbax, the idea of showing all has been discussed many times. I feel that those that push styles as the only way don't understand how many of us work. We don't all create documents that use common styles. In a business setting, I can see it some times. In many cases, you get a document that others have worked on that are not following any style have been direct edited. Their comment is to delete all formatting and start again with styles. Not an option when you are only changing a paragraph from a 30 page document. We don't all have the authority to make the changes. Remove direct formatting. What a thought. Nice way to push many away from OOo but I guess it really is no different than being told to use styles or no formatting. - erics, nice comparison to an HTML editor. I think I looked at that a few years ago. XML formatting is like that. Open and close tags. Heck, the RC was like that from my old WP days. The issue is the divide between those that work on random documents that will be formatted in a unique way. A document that is created for a one time use. A document that would require making it's own unique style that may never be used again. For these one-of documents, direct coding is easier and a time saver. Or those that work with people that use their own formatting between different applications. And those that work in an environment where every document is formatted almost the same. Formatted to some set standard where it is easy to use styles to meet this requirement. This divide won't be resolved unless we all cave and use only one application in the world. MS would like that as it would most likely be their product. --------- I am working on a document now that will be edited by others. They are using WordPerfect, various versions of Word and OOo. I ensure that during the whole phase, there will be a lot of manual formatting implemented. This is going to be a headache if there are any strange issues between the other applications and OOo. I have run into them before and in a couple of cases, iannz RC macro has saved my butt. I will have to try it again with this document. Also something I have come across a couple of situations where I create a document that I have not used any manual settings or styles that I have a problem with. I would like an easy way to know where the problem is. I don't have the time to uncompress the saved file and look at the XML code to figure this out. I would like to see the point where I have a problem. A way to get my cursor into the right point to enter a CR or something else. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
