[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 133258] [FORMATTING] Text layout varies wildly across docs, styles the same

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133258

--- Comment #8 from Luke Kendall <luke.kendall at gmail.com> ---
Ahh!

That explains why when I cleared direct formatting it made no difference.

Thank you, I agree this bug is resolved, and was not a bug.

And I couldn't find differences in style because I only looked at the page
styles I thought were in use (and the paragraph styles).


"@Luke: Be careful with the styles and don't use DF. I would ctrl+A + Remove
Direct Formatting, set Default CS for all text, and also clear the PS."

That's not really practical. In a 130,000 word book, working from a printed
copy so as to re-apply all the italics alone (99.99% of changed character
styles), that would require at minimum 3 mins work per page, so would work out
to at minimum 23 hours of work. On top of that there would be a day or two of
applying the 0.01% of other style information.

"Then I'd start to format the outlines, later the chapters (don't see need for
more than text body) and finally format citation with a dedicated CS. You may
add special PS for the spacial first pages or just DF it."

I would indeed need a small number of styles.  Most books are formatted
consistently, not with complex sets of styles.  Apart from special paragraph
styles across the front matter of the book (like the title and publication,
dedication, Contents and so on), most books just need a zero-indent
section-start paragraph style, a body text style, and a chapter heading style.

In principle it should be super simple, yes.

Thanks once again.  I'm terribly sorry I failed to notice that first page in
the KDP version was Convert8.

I'm not sure I would have ever worked that out - I was blind to it.

Is there some way to generate a report of all styles (Pages, Sections,
Paragraphs, Characters) actually used in a document?

If I had seen any page formats used other than the no-header-or-footer style,
the main page style, and maybe an index style, I would probably have noticed
and tracked down the error.

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