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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: paragraph tool
From:       André_Somers <andre () familiesomers ! nl>
Date:       2008-07-03 16:32:02
Message-ID: 6F7A70CFD2424A0F9B6160DBFE360C45 () WXP001
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From: "Florian Merz" <FlorianMerz@gmx.de>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:15 PM
To: <koffice-devel@kde.org>
Subject: Re: paragraph tool

> Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb André Somers:
>> Sounds like a plea for a WordPerfect-like "underwater view" :-)
>
> Never heard about that and google doesn't help either. Would you mind to
> explain it a bit more?
Ah, maybe it was a bit of a too-direct translation of what this view is 
often called in Dutch. The official English term is "reveal codes". Instead 
of showing the codes in the normal, WYSIWYG editor, it shows a separate, 
split-screen view on the text that includes all the formatting codes that 
are applied to the text. A screenshot can be found here: 
http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/B0017I8NQM-3.jpg


>> Seriously: it is what I still miss most in Word (which I am most often
>> forced to use, unfortunately).
Searching for the screenshot above actually made me stumble on a word add-on 
called crosseyes... I should look into that!

>> It would perhaps help if you could make
>> formatting changes to headings and the likes directly in the "normal"
>> view, but instead of letting these formatting changes by default override
>> those of the style, give the style a property that tells you if these
>> changes by default go into the style itself or will override the style.
>> For heading styles and the like, the default for this would be
>> "Formatting changes are applied to the style", while for normal text
>> styles it would be "Formatting changes override the style". Not sure if
>> such a thing would cause frustration or if it would work nicely, that's
>> what usability experts are for, right? ;-)
>
> I've been meaning to implement something similar with my tool. The button 
> is
> already there, but it doesn't work right now. This is how it is supposed 
> to
> work:
>
> You select the paragraph of text. The tools options docker tells you it's
> a "Header 1" and it provides a checkbox which says "Apply to all 
> paragraphs
> of this style". If you select the checkbox the changes will be applied to
> the style "Header 1" and therefore to all paragraphs with this style. If
> you deselect the checkbox the changes will be applied to the selected
> paragraph.
>
> Did i understand you correctly that this is what you would like to have?

Yes, that is quite close. The only addition in my suggestion would be to be 
attach a default value for that checkbox to the style itself, so headings 
stay in the same style by default, while not all your normal text will go 
italics if you want to stress a single word.

André
 

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