What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
I'm a bit confused, I just compiled svn, and there's no style UI. So, that would be what's missing. john

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Heck
John Levon wrote: I'm a bit confused, I just compiled svn, and there's no style UI. So, that would be what's missing. You mean: No gui for constructing character styles? If so, that's right. We lack any sort of layout editor, which we very much need. rh

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > You mean: No gui for constructing character styles? If so, that's right. Right. That's critical before char styles can be said to be done. > We lack any sort of layout editor, which we very much need. We also need this; however, i

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Heck
John Levon wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: You mean: No gui for constructing character styles? If so, that's right. Right. That's critical before char styles can be said to be done We lack any sort of layout editor, which we very much need. We

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:56:31 -0400 Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Levon wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > > >> You mean: No gui for constructing character styles? If so, that's right. > >> > > Right. That's critical before char st

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Heck
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:56:31 -0400 Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Levon wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: You mean: No gui for constructing character styles? If so, that's right. Right. That's c

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:29:14PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > What did you do with the charstyle once you had it? Write it to a file? This I think is the difficult bit. Where are they stored, and how are they transmitted? "It's a layout thing" won't do... regards john

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Heck
John Levon wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:29:14PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote What did you do with the charstyle once you had it? Write it to a file? This I think is the difficult bit. Where are they stored, and how are they transmitted? "It's a layout thing" won't do... I'm not sure w

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Levon wrote: > This I think is the difficult bit. Where are they stored, and how are > they transmitted? "It's a layout thing" won't do... I think we will have to store some of then in the document. We already had this discussion. I think we ended with three kind of char styles: a.) global

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:44:35PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by `transmitted' here. But at present, > charstyle definitions are stored in layout files or, at least in > 1.6.svn, in layout "modules", which can be used with different > document-class layouts. (This i

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:45:05PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I think we will have to store some of then in the document. > > We already had this discussion. I think we ended with three kind of char You remember that far back too :) john

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Heck
John Levon wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:44:35PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by `transmitted' here. But at present, charstyle definitions are stored in layout files or, at least in 1.6.svn, in layout "modules", which can be used with different document-class l

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Levon wrote: > You remember that far back too :) I do. And I'm pinning all my hope on Richard and Martin, so that this crucial feature will eventually become reality. I really hope this will make it into 1.6.0. Jürgen

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:02:02PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I do. And I'm pinning all my hope on Richard and Martin, so that this crucial > feature will eventually become reality. I really hope this will make it into > 1.6.0. Me too. I'd be happy to help out with UI design or whatever

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Heck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: John Levon wrote: You remember that far back too :) I do. And I'm pinning all my hope on Richard and Martin, so that this crucial feature will eventually become reality. I really hope this will make it into 1.6.0. Document-internal layout is fairly easy to

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:29:14PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > >On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:56:31 -0400 > >Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>John Levon wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > >>> > You mean:

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 01:21:12PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > >John Levon wrote: > > > >>You remember that far back too :) > >> > >I do. And I'm pinning all my hope on Richard and Martin, so that this > >crucial feature will eventually become reality. I really h