On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Georg Baum wrote:

> > Ok. So the .layout contains transformation instructions for the 
> > paragraph styles. I'm a bit sceptical to this approach for the general 
> > case though. You would have to define a lot of transformations to 
> > cover all cases.
> 
> Rather than considering all possible transformations I think you already 
> gain much if every text class defines a mapping from each of its 
> nonstandard styles to a standard one (inverse Obsoletedby), and a 
> mapping from each standard style that it does not implement to a style 
> that it does implement (Obsoletedby)
> Do all this with a reasonable definition of "standard style" (e.g. "all 
> styles that appear in more than 3 layout files"), and you hve something 
> pretty good.

Hmm... I think you are right, this would probably go a long way.

/Christian

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