Sorry if there is some confusion here, as I for one never meant
to criticise styles - which I use extensively, and generally
find useful.
There are however situations where styles might not help. For
example, when troubleshooting document formatting problems such
as page or section options, or when special (manual) character
formatting has been applied to styled paragraphs: this is where
"reveal codes" can come in handy. Also, typically, "Reveal
codes" was used by someone other than the original author...
funny this has never been mentioned, given that it was the main
reason why we had to use "Reveal codes" back when WordPerfect
was the standard!
Anyhow, a (very basic) example of how this could be obtained is
in the "Write/Edit Post" interface in WordPress, with its two
tabs (Visual | Text). I have no idea whether this is possible in
OO - but it is my understanding that something like that is what
people asking for "Reveal codes" might find useful.
As WordPress demonstrates and Richard Detwiler already
suggested, these two ways of looking at a written page are not
necessarily mutually exclusive. So if they are in OO, maybe this
is what needs to be explained to us users, who do not
understand, nor want to know, about the "inner workings" of the program.
Lastly, and by the by: I believe the only way a programmer can
"take the user's perspective" is to listen to end users
themselves. Ideally... without expecting them to be computer
literate or (worse) accusing them to not put in the necessary
time/effort to learn how to use the program.
Thank you for suggesting ways how we might be able to help, as
end (& dumb? :-) users.
marina
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