I wasn't actually asking whether you thought it would be useful, just whether it would be practicable!
I can accept without surprise or even disappointment that the conversion mechanism involved makes (any) use of Word styles impractical. Besides, who's to say that a Word format that works this week won't be replaced by one that doesn't next week <g> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> wrote: > On 10/18/2013 02:56 PM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote: > >> I can spend a happy afternoon taking unstructured content out of an .odt >> or a .docx file, applying DITA rules for structure and converting the >> results to a tightly structured output file I can give back to the >> original writer for discussion. But – while layout and formatting are >> applied consistently, it all seems to be done on the basis of Normal >> plus local overrides. It would be easier to explain structure to the >> original writer (and, of course, easier to update the formatting in line >> with corporate habits) if conversion generated/applied styles with names >> reflecting the elements. >> >> What do you think? I'll understand if you say this approach would take a >> lot more effort than it's worth. >> >> > Even if we were convinced by the usefulness of this feature, we don't see > any reasonable way to implement it. > > Please remember that the .odt and .docx files are generated by an XSLT > stylesheet which generates XSL-FO and then an XSL-FO processor (XMLmind > XSL-FO Converter; see > http://www.xmlmind.com/**foconverter/<http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/>) > which translates this intermediate XSL-FO to the word processor format. > > In other words, we don't see how the source DITA elements could be > automatically related to the bunch of styled paragraphs which are contained > in the .odt or .docx result file. > > >
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