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Subject: Re: [office] User-defined character and paragraph styles
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:09 AM, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote: > Hello, > > We can't seem to find a way to refer to a user-defined character style (family=text) > from a user-defined paragraph style (family=paragraph)... > > I am surprised, because I thought this was an obvious use case for user-defined character styles; > you would define "arial 20 bold" as character style "big" and then use it in the paragraph style > "big heading". > Is there a reason for not allowing this? (I am asking from a user-experience point of view > as well as from a file-format point of view) > If not, what about adding a style:text-style-name attribute to style:style with family=paragraph? > > I guess it would mean replacing the current style-style-content for family=paragraph with something like this (untested) : > > <define name="style-style-content" combine="choice"> > <group> > <attribute name="style:family"> > <value>paragraph</value> > </attribute> > <optional> > <ref name="style-paragraph-properties"/> > </optional> > <optional> > <attribute name="style:text-style-name"> > <ref name="styleNameRef"/> > </attribute> > </optional> > <optional> > <ref name="style-text-properties"/> > </optional> > </group> > </define> > > I was wondering about forcing to either refer to a named character style or define text properties in the paragraph style, > but I guess that being able to do both at the same time could be useful too. For ODF 2.0+, it might make sense to only allow character properties in a paragraph style by referring to a named character style. For 1.x, where x>=2, we should allow both for backward compatibility, though. wt
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