That is interesting... as a person who's never known anything other than
DOS apps, then MS Office then LibreOffice - I would like to know more
about how WordPerfect approached styling.
Is there a written article or video presenting this somewhere? If not,
or even if there is, perhaps it would be useful for someone to give a
talk - at LibOCon or just online - comparing the style systems of
WordPerfect and LO (or just LO Writer).
Eyal
On 06/08/2025 21:24, John Kaufmann wrote:
Funny: 30-year-old WordPerfect got these right - likely because its
styles were not categorical (like "Paragraph", with it panoply of
attributes to be instantiated, and those attributes often specifiable
only within a Paragraph style). For example, a font size style was
relative (Larger, Smaller), and a block quote style could specify
spacings and margins irrespective of fonts.
The SO/OO/LO decision to be a Word work-alike imposed certain costs,
like the styles model. It may be impractical to rethink that decision,
but is probably useful to keep these models in mind as we work out
solutions.
John
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