Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 5223
Style and stylist proposal
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:56 UTC
This is my proposal for the future of styles and stylist.
Created attachment 1758 [details] Style and stylist proposal
it provides a step forward out of the styling problems that OOo poses for average users... the current style handling is not dependable nor consisten thereby increasing user frustration with the product
In my oppinion, most users should ONLY ever use styles. In an organisation, the styles should already be set up by a layout expert and the users just pick styles(types) for each paragraph/section. This prevents inconsistent, and usually ugly, documents being produced within an organisation. It also allows the organsation to globally change the look of all their documents with having to manually fix each individiually. The ultimate would be for OOo to have an option that FORCES the user to use styles and locks-out all the other layout controls. This could be on a per template, per document, or per installation basis. An option should also be supplied to disallow blank lines, and limit the amount of boldface/italic/underline per style per element. If a user really wants to change the layout/look of a document, they should then add some custom styles to their templates (or just the document). This will get people thinking in terms of styles and content, and not of how the document 'looks'.
One additional thing to go with your style/stylist proposal is an element that can be used to describe a list. This would automatically create (link to) descendant(parent?) styles that provide independant formatting for first, first-and-only, middle (multiple) and last elements. Bullets and numbering should be properly integrated with styles - at present it appears to be half way there. Of course MSWord's sad attempt isn't even in the ballpark.
Reassigned to Christian.
Reassiged to Bettina.
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