[ale] Is there a system to encourage using styles?
Tom Freeman
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Sat Oct 3 12:55:29 EDT 2015
I'm thinking that I should mark this [OT], but...
I took another adjunct gig, and am currently reviewing a colleage's (sp?)
notes on the course. I _think_ these notes were created MS Word for Mac
(not certain), but whatever the origin, the change over to LibreOffice for
me has been causing some uglyness. Little things like adding a footer can
throw the formatting of the document for a loop, since the formatting is
based largely on tabs and new paragraph, with the odd table or table
inserted place in a frame for variety.
I know many instruction books and courses suggest using styles rather than
various control characters, but nobody _uses_ styles on a deliberate
daily basis. I know I first ran into "styles" in a usable way about Word
Perfect 4.2 or 5.0 (don't remember), but that has been a quarter century
or so! I appears that most people continue to use the word processor in
the same way their grandparents used a manual typewriter!!
In a dark thought, it occures to me that a dominant software provider is
_not_ pressing styles for the simple reason that it isn't their fault then
that documents are not cross platform, and thus organizations must stick
to the dominant provider. </paranoia>
My question is: "Is there a word processor in the wild that encourages or
requires the concious use of styles and templates for the creation of
documents?"
A subquestion would be can LibreOffice/OpenOffice be reskinned to provide
much the same effect?
I thank people for the use of their bandwidth, and appreciate their time.
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