Re: On to Styles

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Posted by crcowan
2006-01-08 17:35:59

Everyone:

Here are some comments on your posts. First, thanks so much for the welcome and a great 2006 to all!

Alx:

I’m going to package up things and send them to David and see what he thinks. If he is supportive, perhaps they will see the light of day. I agree with your thoughts on TeX but, frankly, I haven’t spent too much time with it.

Al:

I’m glad that Atlantis is doing a good job in this space, but I’d like to turn the paradigm around and make styles the center of WP rather than another feature. I’m also disinclined to adopt another word processor.

Derek:

I’ll certainly join you in that drink. I suspect that the absolute worst implementation in Word is around lists. Numbered, unordered, whatever, the opportunity to cause havoc is unbounded. Most difficult is editing or updating or re-using any documents created by people punching those list toolbar buttons! There are some excellent write ups on the web on how to live with these functions, but we really shouldn’t have to work that hard.

Graham:

Comments to Derek apply to your post as well. I worked with Pagemaker (in fact, still do a bit) and it too has a markup language that you can use with imported text. I don’t really know Ventura but am sure that it also has a style oriented design like Pagemaker. You can do direct formatting in Pagemaker but styles are the preferred approach.

Stephen:

Yes, indeed, Notemap does export Word styles, but then it messes them up with additional paragraph styles for each instance of applied formatting. Just export the Notemap 101 document and check out the plethora of styles created. The way I think it should work is that the paragraph styles should be the standard “Heading 1” etc. and any formatting should be created as character styles.

All:

A few thoughts and thanks so much for your feedback.

Charles

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