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Interesting point, Virgil. I think we need to weak a fine line between
providing a tool that we can use intelligently, and forcing people to
do something they don't understand. Using styles the right way is
something you have to be educated about. Like you, I started by
getting the idea that I could change styles throughout the document if
I used them consistently. But it took longer for me to really
appreciate the need to do functional style definitions. Any character
can be bold for a variety of reasons, and the key is to create and use
styles based on the function of that element in a document. That way,
you can change a subset of all of the bold characters without changing
others. But that requires starting to really think about the
architecture of your information.

Regards,



On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:
I've discovered another neat reason to use character styles instead of
direct character formatting. We've already discussed the advantage of
changing character formatting document-wide by just changing the style.

I've always used Ctrl-B for boldface and Ctrl-I for Italics in providing
direct character formatting to my text. I didn't want to be bothered by
character styles. But, on occasion, I want to clean up a document by
removing direct paragraph formatting (Ctrl-M). When I do that, it clears
*all* direct formatting, whether paragraph or character, so I end up losing
all my bold and italics.

But, I've now learned to use the character styles Emphasis for Italics and
Strong Emphasis for boldface instead of the direct bold and Italics
commands. Then when I hit Ctrl-M to clean up formatting, then my boldface
and Italics are preserved, because they are controlled by character styles
rather than direct formatting.

This has been a major change in the way I've worked over the years, but I
think as I get used to it, I'll really like it and the greater control I'll
get over my work.

What's interesting is that this is the way LaTeX editors like LyX work by
default. It's second nature in LyX, because that's the *only* way it works.
But because of LO's open model (a billion ways of accomplishing the same
task), I've had to adjust how I work with the office suite.

Virgil

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