Re: [libreoffice-users] A feature, or ...?

I'm with you on this one Virgil.
Is there a way to show the styles in a section of text, a bit like 
showing the tags in HTML. If I have a bit of text with a paragraph 
style, a character style and direct formatting, how do I see what is 
applied where.
Steve
On 2013-07-14 10:42, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> I personally think it would be great if LO had a "lock styles" feature 
> that one could choose to prevent himself from making direct formatting 
> changes without going through styles.
>
> As you've noticed there are several layers of formatting methods and, 
> when they're combined in a single document, the file confusion can be 
> great.
>
> Of course, I'm not at all suggesting that LO *require* all formatting 
> to be styles based, only that it provide the user the opportunity to 
> select such a feature.
>
> Virgil
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Gabriel Risterucci
> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 5:33 PM
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] A feature, or ...?
>
> 2013/7/13 Pablo Dotro <pdotro@gmail.com>
>
> > On 11/07/13 07:50, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> >
> > > Once you apply your style, you can clear any direct formatting by
> > > selecting the text and hitting <Ctrl-M>. Everything should then snap 
> > > to the
> > > style-controlled formatting.
> > >
> > > Virgil
> > I've seen a case when this not always work. If you apply some direct
> > formatting (i.e. bold something by hand), then apply some charactery 
> > style,
> > then a paragraph style (with the format you really wanted in the first
> > place)... what you get is a mix of applied formatting that almost never
> > corresponds to the style you wanted. If you clear the direct formatting
> > there, it does not reset completely. You have to also remove the applied
> > character style to get the text to respond completely to the paragraph
> > style.
> > It's annoying, but It could be considered a feature, not a bug ;-)
> Well, it IS a feature. The direct formatting is *only* the direct
> formatting: done using the toolbar buttons, or directly by doing right
> click on the text and changing paragraph/characters here. Removing direct
> formatting will *not* remove paragraph styles nor character styles since
> they are, well, styles, not direct formatting.
>
> It can get confusing, but you just have to remember that there is 
> multiple
> "layers" ​​of formatting applied to the text: paragraph styles, then
> character styles, then direct formatting (don't ask me where the
> conditional formatting goes).


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