Hello I have been following this discussion and found it very interesting. However, I would like to make one suggestion for the paragraph styles - KISS - keep it simple st----.
One example - why is there three styles for numbers and lists? There should be just one for each, that is OOoNum 123 and OOoList 1. There is no need for Start, Cont and End styles if you set paragraph spacing correctly. Second example - why do the style names begin with OOo? It would be better to simply name each style as Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on. This would make it easier to import the template into other software because other software normally uses Heading 1, Heading 2, and so on for style names. My experience comes from working in MS Word to initially create a document and then using Framemaker for the publishing program, which my opinion was one of the best in the market. So easy to compile many chapters into one massive manual. Regards Peter Schofield psaut...@gmail.com On 10 May 2012, at 23:12, Gary Schnabl wrote: > I haven't gotten around to recheck all the list paragraphs styles yet for v. > 3.5.x--easy to do, using the factory-default parameters. However, the older > OOo styles (v. 3.3.x) did not have consistent formatting for all the Ns, in > addition to OOo's having buggy styles that could not properly be reformatted > outside of a narrow indentation range for many Ns. > > IMO, all those list paragraph styles need to be reformatted, according to the > intended purposes for them by users or template designers, anyway. > > > Gary > > On 5/10/2012 3:22 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Gary, Carlos said thanks on the Users List. Cheers chap >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> --- On Thu, 10/5/12, Carlos Pita<carlosjosep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> <snip /> >> >> Gary has clarified the issue. Perhaps the styles should all be >> indented the same by default and just control the interline spacing >> and things like that. >> >> Another related issue is the purpose of the "List N" vs "List N Cont" >> paragraph styles. From the indentation in the styles one can infer >> what follows: >> >> | aditional space here >> First item<--- Start style >> >> Internal item<--- base style >> Continuation of internal item<--- Cont style >> >> Last item<--- End style >> | aditional space here >> >> That cont seems to be intended to follow the base style is suggested >> by the default indentation of the manually formatted lists. For >> example: >> >> 2. Iternal item >> More text >> >> Continuation of item 2 >> >> The indentation provided by the Cont style is exactly the indentation >> needed by "Continuation of item 2" in a manually formatted list in >> order to be left aligned with the item text. But this seems misleading >> again, because the guide explains that Start will be usually linked to >> Cont which will be linked to End, for lists where a single style (the >> base style) isn't enough. Briefly, the alternative interpretations >> are: >> >> Start->base(->Cont)->End >> >> vs >> >> Start->Cont->End or base (for simple formatting requirements) >> >> I'll copy the relevant passages of the documentation for this last >> issue asap, but you can see that the problem is essentially the same: >> default style indentation that seems to be at odds with the usage >> described by the guide, maybe because of historical reasons. >> >> Thanks a lot >> -- >> Carlos >> >> > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
