On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:09 AM, David Faure <> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We can't seem to find a way to refer to a user-defined character style (family=text)
> from a user-defined paragraph style (family=paragraph)...
>
> I am surprised, because I thought this was an obvious use case for user-defined character styles;
> you would define "arial 20 bold" as character style "big" and then use it in the paragraph style
> "big heading".
> Is there a reason for not allowing this? (I am asking from a user-experience point of view
> as well as from a file-format point of view)
> If not, what about adding a style:text-style-name attribute to style:style with family=paragraph?
>
> I guess it would mean replacing the current style-style-content for family=paragraph with something like this (untested) :
>
> <define name="style-style-content" combine="choice">
> <group>
> <attribute name="style:family">
> <value>paragraph</value>
> </attribute>
> <optional>
> <ref name="style-paragraph-properties"/>
> </optional>
> <optional>
> <attribute name="style:text-style-name">
> <ref name="styleNameRef"/>
> </attribute>
> </optional>
> <optional>
> <ref name="style-text-properties"/>
> </optional>
> </group>
> </define>
>
> I was wondering about forcing to either refer to a named character style or define text properties in the paragraph style,
> but I guess that being able to do both at the same time could be useful too.
For ODF 2.0+, it might make sense to only allow character properties
in a paragraph style by referring to a named character style. For 1.x,
where x>=2, we should allow both for backward compatibility, though.
wt
