At 00:35 23/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 23:39 14/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 18:16 14/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, James Plante wrote:
From styles menu: load styles
... the 'load styles' dialogue seemed to work; when I looked at
the styles list in the new document, I found the styles I had
devised in the source document.
I'm not sure why this is necessary: a little experimentation
confirms my impression that simply copying and pasting material
from one document to another automatically carries with it necessary styles.
here a little experimentation confirms my impression the styles
are not carried over. bit of a hurry now but I'll have a deeper
look later; most likely I'm missing some special circumstance. weird.
[...]
I'm at 4.1.1.
Just to confirm my experience (in version 4.1.2 under Windows):
I created a new text document with new character, paragraph, and
page styles and saved it as .odt. I even closed OpenOffice. Now I
reopened the document, selected all, and copied and pasted into a
new document. The new document showed all three custom styles. (A
manual page break was not carried over, which confused the issue
slightly, but the styles were all there.)
there must be some special condition differing between your and my
setup. I may try to replicate your experiment exactly but not right
this moment; maybe tomorrow.
I did repeat my experiment:
(a) open new document (OpenOffice 4.1.1 under Linux (Debian));
(b) check default style and applied style: just says 'default' and
no 'applied styles'
(c) take heavily formatted document and copy and paste a bit from it
into the 'virgin' document.
(d) check default style and applied style: same as in (b); plus
immediately obvious since the formatted document has 1.5 line
spacing while 'virgin' is single-spaced.
there are differences between your experiment and mine; wouldn't
have thought they'd make a difference ...
You talk of "default" style without saying whether you are talking of
page, paragraph, or character styles. It seems that the default
paragraph style in particular is protected and not overwritten when
material is copied in. But the process works perfectly well, it
seems, with styles being automatically imported, if you use *custom*
styles instead of modifying Default.
Brian Barker
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