On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:33 +0000, Michele Zarri wrote: > > > > I will note, though, that even with a macro available to do the work, > > SOMEONE has to notice that it is needed and then remember to run the > > macro, and very few people seem to pay enough attention to little chores > > like that. > > > ... the contributors could happily ignore the table formatting > and this could be done in a final revision.
In most cases, by me... > Even better (though dangerous) you can run the macro when > the document opens so you do not have to do anything at all. I thought of that, but then if someone changes a table in a way that requires rebanding, it doesn't get updated until someone else opens the document (or the person remembers to run the macro again. So it doesn't solve the problem but just postpones it. > > Having some "validation" macros in the template would actually speed > up some of the more repetitive activities such as checking if bold and > italic text is styled "correctly", or if the paragraph before a list > is styled correctly. I also have (somewhere) an OOoAuthors keyboard > layout that really helps to apply styles quickly (though you need to > learn the keyboard shortcuts. > Maybe we can add to the ever increasing list of nice to have features > a collection of these tools. I very much like that idea, especially checking the application of styles. I've noticed that some of the newer people apply bold and italic manually rather than using the styles. Of course, it's not always clear which styles are for what (something I will fix) and IMO we may need another character style or two with more explicit names... much as I hate proliferating styles. --Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
