On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
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.
sorry for being so unclear but I am talking about the field that
appears when you press F11 which regulates a lot of the paragraphing
including font style, etc.
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.
not sure I understand this. two remarks:
a) it sounds like you are saying that 'default' (via 'F11') will not
be altered by copy and paste; if so, that's what I've observed.
b) it sounds like you are saying other customizations will be altered
by copy and paste; if so, I have not found this to be so - I don't
see them via 'F11' looking at 'applied styles' or at 'custom styles'.
I still haven't do your experiment but I intend to try it.
I probably have misunderstood you though. my apologies in advance; oh
heck, I apologize for past misunderstandings too!
f.
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Felmon Davis
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brothers.
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