Re: Interested in building a Styles Dialog

Subject: Re: Interested in building a Styles Dialog
From: Owen Stenseth (owen@pdaverticals.com)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 22:37:06 CDT

I am also encouraged by the response that I have seen on the list to
implementing this. I will begin to dig into the code to see what is
supported and how that can be exposed to the end user.

As I am fairly new to the abiword codebase expect lots of questions :-) 

--
Owen

Martin Sevior wrote:
> 
> I really like the way this thread is going. I like the idea of saving
> style properties within an abi document. Once 0.7.10 is out and my
> obligatory contributions have been made (modeless for find/replace and
> spell) I would really like to implement a modeless color dialog. The idea
> is to have the named predefined colours of abi in a pallette along with a
> number of user-defined colours. You choose the colors as needed and can
> define your own colours as needed via the color picker widget. Now having
> chosen a special set of user defined colours it would be great to be able
> to save those along with the document so that the next time you edit it
> your previously defined colours are ready and available.
> 
> Having a modeless colour dialog like this would make preparing coloured
> documents much easier. Just click on the colour you want and you've got
> it.
> 
> I'm looking forward to using this for preparing transperencies for
> presentations.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, sam th wrote:
> 
> > This sounds good.  Just put a wrapper element around it:
> >
> > <collection-of-styles name="foobar">
> > > <style name="Justin's Style" props="color: red; point-size: 20; etc" />
> > >
> > </collection-of-styles>
> >
> > and we have something easily included in a .abw file.  If James Clark
> > decides to implement XInclude[1] in expat, we could use that to include it
> > in the <styles> section of a <abiword> document via something like this:
> >
> > <styles>
> >   <style name="style1" props="color: red"/>
> >   <xinclude:include xmlns:xinclude="..." href="stylesheet_doc.sst"/>
> > </styles>
> >
> > which would expand to
> >
> > <styles>
> >   <style name="style1" ... />
> >   <collection-of-styles name="foobar">
> >     <style ... />
> >   </collection-of-styles>
> > </styles>
> >

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