Edwin Leuven wrote:
Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
Edwin Leuven wrote:
case 2 is in my opinion not so relevant because i don't see why (in the
current solution) one would have default unchecked and then choose the
explicit alignment that matches default behavior
One such cases: I'm in Standard Layout and I want my par centered so
I set
it explicitly. Then I change layout to one with centered default [then
realize it's not what I though] and change back. I've lost my explicit
centering.
this is not case 2, but case 1:
x is set and we change the default to x
...
could you give a meaningful example with specific layouts between
which you would be switching (out of curiosity) which would give rise
to the above?
I can't remember a layout with default centering, but I believe the headings
are left-justified.
So, set some "standard" paragraph to explicit left-justified.
Turn it into a heading, then turn it back to "standard" again.
Information lost, if we don't have an explicit "default".
Something similiar happens with paragraphs of increased depth - they
may inherit all sorts of settings from the outer paragraph.
So please let us have "default" in addition to explicit alignments.
Now, feel free to add an indicator saying what the current default
alignment is, i.e.:
o default (justified)
o justified
o right
o center
o left
But don't add the indicator unless you make sure it is
correct in all cases (except ERT abuse).
You must cope with changing paragraph layouts, changing document
types, documents included into other documents,
paragraphs nested into other paragraphs that possibly have different
alignments set, document branches being turned on/off, and so on.
Seeing as we are near a release, I think just keeping "default"
is the easy way to go here.
Helge Hafting
