[ale] Is there a system to encourage using styles?

Jim Kinney jkinney at jimkinney.us
Mon Oct 5 08:18:57 EDT 2015


+1!

I need to look at how to cull the style list. I keep the panel open during writing as well. I like the 'next style' feature of easy transition from headers to sub header or text body.

On October 5, 2015 8:01:49 AM EDT, Jason van Gumster <fweeb at monsterjavaguns.com> wrote:
>
>Tom Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>
>> A subquestion would be can LibreOffice/OpenOffice be reskinned to
>provide 
>> much the same effect?
>
>I use styles pretty heavily when I write in LibreOffice and I tend to
>write
>with the whole Styles panel visible (enabled by pressing F11) while I
>write. I
>also cull the (rather over-extensive) list of styles in that list to
>just the
>ones I frequently use. Not only does doing this offer quick access to
>various
>styles, but it serves as a constant reminder that styles exist and that
>I
>should use them.
>
>You could save such a layout as a start-up preference and, with a
>little gentle
>prodding/instruction, you could coerce a person into writing with a
>more
>style-based structure.
>
>  -Jason
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