Looking a bit through the extensive discussion, I noticed Ian Laurenson's RevealCodes macro [2] from 2004. This seems to be the closest to an implementation and could be used as an inspiration.
How about we open a bug? Regards, Philipp [2] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ "RevealCodes3.sxw" On 23 December 2010 01:30, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > On 23/12/10 00:07, Philipp Weissenbacher wrote: > > May I point you to the crazy idea "Add WordPerfect features like > RevealCodes and HiddenText" [1] > > Actually, it was me that added that to the wiki page :-) > > Also see the therein referenced OOo bug. It's been requested in 2002 > and always dismissed with the answer "learn to use styles" *sigh*. > > But I didn't know about that OOo bug. I'll need to learn styles, but yes, > *me* learning styles is totally useless when it's *someone* *else* who's > messed up *their* document (and expects me to fix it for them). I think that's *exactly* *the* use case: fixing broken formatting. > > Plus, I expect I may well soon be teaching people to word process. I shall > almost certainly be running WordPerfect under Wine, and making them use > reveal codes. Yep - WordPerfect 6.1 for Win 3.1, but imho the > pre-Corel-rewrite versions of WP are pretty much the best word processor > ever :-) > > Just my 2 cents. > > And my tuppence. > > Cheers, > Wol > _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
