Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote:
If it can be provided, how do you know it won’t do me any good?
If you can create a XML document using a text editor such as EdLine,
that validates against the standard that you are writing, then you
should be using the XML mode of VI.
But, more to the point, it is patently obvious that you are completely
oblivious to what the formatting tool bar in OOo does display.
This is one of the most frequently requested absent features of Openoffice
Only by those who haven't bothered to learn how to use OOo.
would be hugely useful to those who work professionally with text, such as writers and editors.
_ALL_ of the functionality that reveal codes offered WP users is
currently available in OOo. The issue is whether or not the individual
is willing to invest the time into learning how to use OOo, or if they
want to treat OOo as a fancy typewriter, and do all of the presentation
markup manually.
>Making visible the points at which styles and formatting attributes
begin and end would be a very significant control
If those formatting attributes were done manually, then you have
somebody who doesn't know how to use styles.
for those editing a text or preparing it for publication.
That is why you use styles.
>have “phantom” styles and attributes, such as an opening tag followed
by a closing tag with no significant text in between,
duplicated tags, and tags for styles that are no longer required.
What you are describing there, are either artifacts from not using
styles, but trying to emulate them by doing the markup by hand, or the
end product of tools that didn't know how to correctly implement styles
in the first place.
>These can make texts unnecessarily complex and cause headaches for
editor and typesetter.
Which is why the first thing to do is save the document as plain text,
and then redo all of the formatting using the specific set of styles
that are needed. (This is something that every experienced editor knows
to do, when they receive content that has been converted from two or
more different programs.)
I have one complex text that only one person ever worked on
What you describe is a compiler that either never bothered how to learn
to use their tools, or else never bother to use their tools correctly.
a simulation of this feature is possible by means of a macro, as proved by the fact that it has been done.
And if you really paid attention to what Ian's macro displayed, and also
really paid attention to what the formatting tool bar displayed, you'd
know that the sole difference between the two was that Ian used words,
and the tool bar uses icons. And you'd also know where and how to fix
any markup problems you found.
understand correctly) allowed them to be deleted.
Ian's macro did not enable one to edit, delete, or add anything to the
presentation markup.
jonathon
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