Re: [office-collab] Format content - target September 26 2012

[Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <ORWITT@de.ibm.com>]

Hi,
> Greetings!
>
> Your daily dose of CT issues!
>
> The ECT proposal notes that ODF 1.2 does not track style changes, so the
> first question for the SC:
>
> 1) Do we accept that style changes should be tracked?
>
> I am assuming yes but I think we need to be clear on that point because
> it brings up:
>
> What changes we want to make to the style mechanisms?
>
> Now we have common, automatic, master (just from memory).
>

My view on automatic styles and changes to them is the following:
- An automatic style represents more or less the attributes set at a
certain "component". E.g., the formatting attributes of a paragraph.
- If the automatic styles of two or more "components" are the same, the
automatic style only occurs once in the ODF document and is referenced by
all "components" which have the corresponding attributes in common.
- Thus, a change to an automatic style does not really exist for me.
- If a change of the attributes of a certain "component" occurs - for me -
it means that it applies a another automatic style.
Thus, a change to an automatic style more or less does not happen in my
view.
What is happening in my view is the creation of a new automatic style and
the change of which automatic style is referenced.

My view on common styles and changes to them is the following:
- Changes to common styles happen ;-)
- Such a change could be:
-- change of the value of an attribute
-- insertion/deletion of an attribute
-- insertion/deletion of a child element.


> I would prefer to simplify the style mechanisms prior to defining change
> tracking for them.
>
> Hope everyone is having a great week!
>
> Patrick
>

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann

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