Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 12789
1.1Beta style Sheet dysfunction
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:56:16 UTC
Stylist fails completely in 1.1, even clicking on a new paragraph style has little or no effect on e.g. changing the font, or one attribute may change but not others. The level of dysfunction is such that I will have to cease beta testing until a newer release offers at least some hope of getting anything done.
Reassigned to ES
I just work on your issue 12765 (which has nothing to do with this one) and I tend to think that something goes wrong on your system/OOo installation. So the same question: which OS do you use? Please add a sample doc with style which shouldn't work explaining which attributes don't work. I can't reproduce your problem
os - win2k SR3
Created attachment 5429 [details] text file with stylesheet problem
hi, thanks for your note, I just attached a doc with the problem. let's say a para has the "default"style. When I click on the "body text" style, sometimes the font does not change. It is irregular, for sometimes it will work, but about 50% of the time it will show "text body" as the new style, yet the font will be stuck on "courier new" instead of switching to "Book Antiqua" which is the font for "body text"
Looking at your doc, my guess is that you try to apply styles (soft formatting) on paragraphs which are hard formatted. Hard formatting always wins vs. styles. You may have no problem selecting the whole text and resetting all formattings to Default (menu "Format - Default"). From now on your style will always work when applied.
closed
I'm doing some experimenting on this, and I'm managing to crash the program by selecting ALL and doing format default. Sometimes it works a few times, but sometimes it hangs right away. So there may actually be going something on here, but it may have to do more with doc converstion than with formatting, though formatting is where it shows up.
Created attachment 5480 [details] today's test case 04/06/03
I am starting to figure this out. It has to do with the fact that these were imported files, and for some reason they have a lot of sections. After removing all the sections all the problems essentially went away, but working on it with the sections still in I got really bizarre effects, and the program hangs sometimes trying to apply a style change. All of which is not good. I believe the MMR1_Introduction doc alone had 24 sections, while it is straight text. and, while I did find a work around, the fact that I could repeatedly make the file hang, by just applying a style change, feels like something is not as robust as it should be.
The problem you describe has nothing to do with the original issue. Please file another issue if you can reproduce it for sure. Describe then exactly what you do to cause the hang up/crash.