oo3 Pro final: detail cultivation

[Mark Smith]

Alfred Lang wrote:

>1)I definitely need as soon as possible an option to easily lock and 
>unlock rows or fields. For whenever I change some style details 
>somewhere, almost certain there appear several unmotivated and 
>absolutely unwanted style changes such as font size, color, or 
>alignment changes (e.g. right instead of left) and more in different 
>and unrelated places places. I cannot afford to check and rework a 
>file in its entirety, whenever I change something.:

The style system in OO3 ought to prevent that. *IF* you are careful how you apply styles. Have you tried using:

view-> [show|hide] styles ? Its a little (or maybe very) confusing at first (though I can't think of a better way to do it), but it does let you see what's happening style-wise in your whole document and its therefore very valuable, if you have been locally applying "in-line" styles instead of, or in addition to, structurally-defined styles.

Even if you don't do ConTeXt, you could take a look at the template belonging to the plugin Adam announced today. To get an idea of how to manage this well.

>2) Another point of lacking finesse is in named styles: why do styles 
>named and saved in a template disappear, when I open this template as 
>a new file?

Doesn't happen for me. My named styles are retained when opening a template.


>3) That it is still impossible to switch off numbering  in any one or 
>several rows or limiting it to selected rows or groups without 
>retaining them latently numbered, makes numbering useless or 
>prohibits using titles in an outline. ;

This is also possible, at least in a way that makes sense to me in that you can toggle numbering attributes according to hierarchy level in the row inspector. You also have the summary feature in the column type inspector where you *may* be able to produce the visual effect you are looking for, depending on column types.

OTOH, if you want to arbitrarily toggle numbering on any row/node, then AFAIK, this is not possible. Not sure why it would be useful. Can you give and example ?

mark.