[Libreoffice] format inspector (Was : Re: sw: numbering misbehaviour)

[Philipp Weissenbacher]

Looking a bit through the extensive discussion, I noticed Ian
Laurenson's RevealCodes macro [2] from 2004. This seems to be the
closest to an implementation and could be used as an inspiration.

How about we open a bug?

Regards,
Philipp

[2] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ "RevealCodes3.sxw"

On 23 December 2010 01:30, Wols Lists <antlists at youngman.org.uk> wrote:
> On 23/12/10 00:07, Philipp Weissenbacher wrote:
>
> May I point you to the crazy idea "Add WordPerfect features like
> RevealCodes and HiddenText" [1]
>
> Actually, it was me that added that to the wiki page :-)
>
> Also see the therein referenced OOo bug. It's been requested in 2002
> and always dismissed with the answer "learn to use styles" *sigh*.
>
> But I didn't know about that OOo bug. I'll need to learn styles, but yes,
> *me* learning styles is totally useless when it's *someone* *else* who's
> messed up *their* document (and expects me to fix it for them).
I think that's *exactly* *the* use case: fixing broken formatting.

>
> Plus, I expect I may well soon be teaching people to word process. I shall
> almost certainly be running WordPerfect under Wine, and making them use
> reveal codes. Yep - WordPerfect 6.1 for Win 3.1, but imho the
> pre-Corel-rewrite versions of WP are pretty much the best word processor
> ever :-)
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> And my tuppence.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>