On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 18:49 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Nov 18 13:24 -0600]: > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:02:47AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > > > I won't give you any arguments. If it is the software that you like and > > > not a need for the format, then that is your choice and your right. > > > That's what linux is all about -- choice! I will also admit that the > > > reveal codes option was the greatest idea since the wheel. I used it in > > > WP 5.1 a LOT, not as much in WP8, though. I wish that other word > > > processors would start using it, too. It seems like such an easy thing, > > > I don't know why others have not picked it up. > > > > I believe it was discussed on this very list years ago for OOo. Answer: > > they disapprove of it. > > In a way, that's too bad. "Getting under the hood" is always a useful > feature. WYSIWYG is fine until what you're looking at disappears at a > keystroke and winds up a page down or something. Editing the codes in > WP was often the best way to get the layout just right, especially in > WP 5.1. > > > Really: the OOo developers don't want people to think in terms of > > formatting, but in terms of styles. So codes shouldn't matter to us. > > That sounds very much like SGML philosophy and this is precisely why a > reveal codes functionality would be so useful in OOo which is > essentially now an XML editor so one could work at the abstract style > level instead of layout/formatiing (maybe I need to spend more time > with OOo Writer as it probably already does this). I don't do much > heavy document editing these days so I'm not going to lose any sleep > over it. ;-)
If you want Reveal Codes, you could always edit the XML in Vim... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." Rod Serling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
