Jallan wrote:
Jonathon Blake wrote:
Robin wrote:
Reveal codes are better for the one time only people
Reveal codes are for the grossly incompetent person who refuses to
learn to use their tools properly.
I think it is more often the case that people honestly have difficulty
in understanding and believing that there are no codes, that instead of
a text stream with formatting codes as in NROFF, WordStar, Word Perfect,
HTML, or PCL, that instead MS Word and OOo Writer internally have
paragraph objects with attributes and links, that there really are no
formatting codes involved internally.
Of course, with the wrong model in mind, they then have difficulty in
understanding what might be at fault when things go wrong,
understandably, considering the error in their understanding, wishing
that they had a reveal codes mode to allow them to see what is really
happening underneath.
Now it might be possible to have a "reveal source code mode" where OOo
Write automatically saves when it is invoked, then brings up windows
showing the associated source code for whatever section of the document
one is looking at. Make a change in the document, the source code
windows are greyed as no longer in synch. When you select them again,
the document is resaved and again the source code windows are updated.
(You would also be able to edit the source code in these windows and
save the module ... very much at your own risk.)
But, however nice that would be, there are updates and changes far more
urgently needed by more users of OpenOffice.org then a full debugger of
this kind. (But perhaps someone will start a separate project: an
OpenDocument editor comparable to many HTML editors.)
Jallan
As suggested, I am responding directly to the discuss group.
This puts my feelings about reveal codes in words that I couldn't come
up with.
I have tried to create styles (which was easy in WP) but I keep
getting lost. If I want to make some simple changes, RC would allow
me to do this in a very quick and efficient way. Taking the time to
edit a style and apply it would take more time.
I have had the same situation where I go to change something into BOLD
or underline and find that it doesn't show up as expected. Multiple
attempts later I finally get it. This has happened in WP, Word and
OOo. This is below the level of a style but with RC, I could find
where the problem was and insert the cursor to the exact point
necessary to get around the problem. Or even to delete the code that
was causing the problem.
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Robin Laing
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