On 29.02.20 09:49, Shivam Kumar Singh wrote:
> But in both we are mostly focusing on the Paragraph and Character styles. 
> There can be page, frame, list styles too. Should we not consider them ?

Nope, but PS and CS are the most important. From the blog post [1]: "If the 
paragraph is referring to a list or table style, or when the the text is placed 
within a frame, this would also be shown. Another complexity comes with 
conditional styles. The simple solution is to show name and attributes of the 
actual applied style but with a note that a condition is met and what style is 
used."
 
> Regarding the placing, for the “Highlighter” I think adding another tab in 
> the Styles side pane would be a good option as we could use more space here, 
> and it would be a cleaner approach. For “Inspector” a new window could be a 
> good option.
> What do you think ?

Tabs in the sidebar refer to completely different views, actually tabs. See [2] 
for the correct terminology. Whether you talk about tabs or decks, I think it 
goes the wrong direction. The highlighter is something you need while scrolling 
through the mostly finalized document in order to spot formatting failures. I 
don't see this in any form realized at the sidebar.

> Also for the various styles like “Headings” or “Default”, as Mike had pointed 
> we will need to collapse/expand the menus, for that we can use DropDown box. 

The proposal is to use a tree and collapse a style if it contains more than x 
nodes. "The example starts with the Default style, collapsed as it consists of 
more than eight nodes (the number from when nodes are collapsed is chosen 
arbitrary here and could be higher)." Usually you define a large number of 
attributes for the top level (Default) and derive with just a few changed that 
can be shown easily in a tree to make the relation clear.

> Please give me a few more insights and also some bugs closely related these 
> projects which you think I must solve before beginning the project.

34002   EDITING - Add Reveal Codes feature like there is in WordPerfect.  
38194   Style indicator in document margin  
88559   Display of inherited attributes from parent styles in Styles dialog  
89826   Allow removal/reset of individual style attributes  
94427   UI: Show indicator of currently applied style when a different style is 
selected in styles sidebar  
106556  Add functionality that highlights all directly formatted text  
115311  UI missing for nesting character styles  
118781  UI: Change the 'Contains' section in the Modify Style dialogues to 
improve the transparency and use of hierarchical styles  
129422  Suppress listing of parent styles in the Find and Replace dialog  

Many thanks for your interest in the topic,
Heiko

[1] 
https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2019/11/05/proposal-to-conveniently-highlight-and-inspect-styles-in-libreoffice-writer/
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Guidelines/SideBar

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