Rod Engelsman wrote:
Direct formatting with Wordperfect-style tokens is like typing with the
Shift key. You're typing along and then you hit the Caps-lock key and
that tells the machine to create upper-case letters until you release
the Caps-lock and then you are creating lower-case letters again.
On the other hand, Styles are like a control panel full of buttons,
knobs, and switches and a particular style is just a snapshot of the
position of all those controls. Every paragraph has a style associated
with it and that style completely describes the formatting for that
paragraph. Similarly, every character has a style as well.
I appreciate your efforts trying to explain the difference - and making
a comment re further ahead in the discussion, I can very well imagine
e.g. a tree opening from the context menu, starting with the names of
page, paragraph, character &c. styles and then branching out to the
nitty gritty, as long as it shows _everything_.
But from your description, I would expect the opposite behaviour of WP
and OOo in this experiment:
Write two lines of anything, bolden one of them (whether by defining a
character style or with the button up on the menu doesn't make a
difference). Now select a couple of letters from one line; push them
into the other. And vice versa.
Wordperfect behaves symmetrically: the new letters in the normal line
are bold, and the new letters in the bold line are normal. In OOo, both
end up bold, which tells me that only Bold is an attribute, and that
there is simply nothing set in the normal line: not every character has
the full set of attributes.
My thinking or OOo's way of working, which is wrong?
klaus
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