Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles

Hi :)
Exactly!  


It's like driving an automatic car rather than a gear-shift one but with the option to use 
gear-shift if&when you choose to.  


Most people are more familiar with worrying about what to do right now and with keeping all their 
previous choices in their head.  The idea of surrendering that to an automated process so they can 
just get on with the writing is even quite scary to people.  


However, automatics are catching on.   One lass at work even has it as 1 of her "must haves" when 
choosing a new car.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Kevin O'Brien <zwilnik@zwilnik.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2013, 15:11
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles
>
>
> On 4/30/2013 4:18 PM, Dave Liesse wrote:
> > As an end user, I'd like to ask one follow-up question to your third 
> > point.  This is an "I don't understand" type of question, by the way, 
> > not a challenge.
> >
> > Are you implying that if I want to, say, indent one paragraph with no 
> > other changes, I should create a new style for that?  Seems like a lot 
> > of work since it can be done with one mouse clicks (or, if I ever get 
> > around to learning how to create shortcut keys, one keystroke 
> > combination) plus navigating to the paragraph.
>
> Personally, I think this is the wrong way to approach the problem. I 
> would start with *why* you want to indent the paragraph. What a lot of 
> people do, without ever being conscious of it, is use visual appearance 
> to communicate structural information. I start with the structural 
> information (What is this object doing here on the page? What is its 
> purpose?), and then I can add any visual formatting to it that I need. 
> So if the indent is used to denote a quoted passage form another source 
> (a very common usage), I would create a style for the *quotation*, and 
> give it the attribute of indentation. And I would save it in my Default 
> Template because I'm pretty sure this won't be the last time in my life 
> that I need to do quoted passages. And if I have a long document with a 
> number of objects, I can change the appearance of the quoted passages 
> without affecting anything else. This is something the authors of the 
> Writer documentation really understand, but it is a new way of thinking 
> for most people.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Kevin B. O'Brien
> zwilnik@zwilnik.com
> A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw.
>
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