On 11/9/2010 07:40, Michele Zarri wrote:
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I have also simplified the table style to a more modern look, one which
is also easier to maintain, and made some other minor tweaks.
I agree that it is easier to maintain, but I think that for
readability purposes we should keep the banded rows.
Banded rows? You mean the alternating white and gray backgrounds? They
are a major time-consuming nuisance to maintain when rows are added to
or removed from a table. With the horizontal lines I've added between
the rows, the colour differentiation of the rows themselves should not
be needed. (The horiz. lines may not be immediately obvious unless you
turn off table boundaries.)
It should be easy enough for me to write a macro to fix the banding (just go
through the table a row at a time, removing any existing banding, and adding
what should be there), although Andrew could doubtless do it faster (yes,
that's a hint :-) ), since I know nothing about tables. We could store the
macro in the template. I'm in love with the obvious name for it ("Bandit").
More seriously, I find the banding pretty, professional, and easy to read.
If we can fix the maintainability, would you reconsider? --/tj/
Hello TJ,
I have done a lot of work with tables, so it won't be a problem to
write such macro for me.
It will only work for simple tables (heading row, followed by n rows)
which I guess will cover for 95% of the tables we use. The only
"problem" is to decide which colour we should apply.
If you mean what shade: according to Select table row > Table > Table
properties > Background, it is "Gray 10%", which according to Tools >
Options > OO.o > Color is RGB(230,230,230) as needed in a macro.
The logo color is prescribed at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Logo_Usage_Guidelines#Logo_Usage_Guidelines_2
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/tj/
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