Re: [office] style inheritance again

[Peter Junge <peterjunge@RedOffice.com>]

Hi Florian,

Florian Reuter wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> I just ran over the following problem about style inheritance in ODF.
> 
> Suppose you have the following style definitions:
>  <style:style style:name="Standard" style:family="paragraph">
>    <style:paragraph-properties>
>     <style:tab-stops>
>      <style:tab-stop style:position="1in"/>
>      <style:tab-stop style:position="2in"/>
>      <style:tab-stop style:position="3in"/>
>      <style:tab-stop style:position="4in"/>
>     </style:tab-stops>
>    </style:paragraph-properties>
>   </style:style>
> 
>  <style:style style:name="MyStyle" style:family="paragraph"
> style:parent-style-name="Standard">
>    <style:paragraph-properties>
>     <style:tab-stops>
>      <style:tab-stop style:position="5in"/>
>     </style:tab-stops>
>    </style:paragraph-properties>
>   </style:style>
> 
> So when rendering a paragraph with style "MyStyle" will the paragraph
> have 5 tabs [1in, 2in, 3in, 4in, 5in] or just one tab at [1in] according
> to ODF inheritance?

Just my opinion as a newbie at this TC. The composite result of your
example obviously makes sense. But what about having the following style
definitions:
 <style:style style:name="Standard" style:family="paragraph">
   <style:paragraph-properties>
    <style:tab-stops>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="1in"/>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="2in"/>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="3in"/>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="4in"/>
    </style:tab-stops>
   </style:paragraph-properties>
  </style:style>

 <style:style style:name="MyStyle" style:family="paragraph"
style:parent-style-name="Standard">
   <style:paragraph-properties>
    <style:tab-stops>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="1.25in"/>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="2.5in"/>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="3.75in"/>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="5in"/>
    </style:tab-stops>
   </style:paragraph-properties>
  </style:style>

 <style:style style:name="MyStyleLevel2" style:family="paragraph"
style:parent-style-name="Standard">
   <style:paragraph-properties>
    <style:tab-stops>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="1.666666in"/>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="3.333333in"/>
     <style:tab-stop style:position="5in"/>
    </style:tab-stops>
   </style:paragraph-properties>
  </style:style>

You will end up in a tabstop mess. Hence I think <style:tab-stops>
should be overwritten by default. But how about introducing an attribute
e.g. 'style:inheritance' with ODF-Next, for example <style:tab-stops
style:inheritance="preserve">?

Best regards,
Peter

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