Michael Koren wrote: > Christoph Schdfer wrote: > >> Am Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 17:32 schrieb Pierre-Luc Auclair: >> >>> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:56, Pierre Marchand wrote: >>> >>>> lets me think he has a kind of "contextual style" in >>>> mind, >>>>> which is IMHO heavy to manage. <<<<< >>>> Maybe a substyle mechanism would be easier. >>>> With his example it gives (in edit window): >>>> ... >>>> styleX >>>> Heading>alone >>>> followed >>>> styleY >>>> ... >>>> >>> Yes, it's heavy to manage, but count the hours spent making your >>> contextual >>> styles perfect versus doing it by hand on the whole course of a book >>> (even >>> if you need to proof-read it later), even a document, or even some >>> template >>> used by secretaries in offices. >>> >>> To me this would be a very powerful tool, despite being complicated. >>> >>> Pierre-Luc >>> >> Would http://bugs.scribus.net/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0000363 be >> what you guys need? >> >> Christoph >> >> > > Only when you know in advance the number of headers, subheaders, and such > for each section. Then you could make a specialized section style with first > N elements set as headers, etc. > > Thinking in terms of a more abstract GUI sort of approach, I wonder if an answer might be some kind of tokenization of styles, so that a style with all its attributes could be clicked, dragged, and dropped from one location to another. This might make use of the Scrapbook or a Scrapbook-like area for style tokens, with a user-defined label. The more obvious way this might be used would be with Story Editor, where a tag for the style already exists, but perhaps highlighted text in a text frame might also be feasible.
Greg
