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Three types of style - a bridge too far? common, automatic, and master

  • 1.  Three types of style - a bridge too far? common, automatic, and master

    Posted 10-01-2020 16:10
    Greetings! As I construct the clean change tracked ODF 1.2 to ODF 1.3 document, it occurred to me, not for the first time, that we really should just have styles and their usage, in a master page element or as a user invoked style, really should be the only difference. That is treating some styles as attributes of objects as opposed to having objects to which styles are applied, in some appropriate context, seems unnecessary and introduces exceptions for styles that are unnecessary. Is that a bridge too far for ODF 1.4? Or would it involve such a level of change for implementations that it would be better addressed in a future ODF 2.0? Not about to start on such work right at the moment but it's something that might make it easier to explain and implement ODF. No hurry but wanted to see if there were any strong feelings the division among styles? Thanks! Hope everyone is having a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau Attachment: signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature