Subject: RE: The New Styles
From: James Montgomerie (jamie@montgomerie.net)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 10:35:57 CST
On 2001.03.14 16:27:00 +0000 Tom Newton wrote:
>
> On issue 2 however, either I'm misunderstanding the thread or you've all
> got
> it slightly wrong. It is my understanding that with most modern word
> processors (certainly in Word) the style definitions are saved with
> documents, and therefore, the fact that the default styles have changed
> shouldn't affect the documents that people have saved. Therefore, _any_
> changes to the default set of styles (even the change to the "normal"
> style)
> should not affect documents that people have already saved. In Word for
> example, if you change all the default styles, and then receive a
> document
> from someone who hasn't done so, their document still loads and displays
> correctly. I think Abiword should match this behaviour, and if it's not
> already persisting a set of styles in documents that have been saved,
> then
> this should be implemented before any changes are made to the default set
> of
> styles.
>
Yes. Good point. Why doesn't AbiWord save the styles in the document?
I propose [yet another] way to solve the problem:
Use the 'new' styles [without the line space] by default.
Save styles in the document.
Use the 'old' styles if there are no styles saved in a document
being loaded, to suppport legacy documents with no formatting changes.
How hard would this be to implement?
Jamie.
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