how to create new style

[renard]

Nice work. Works fine. Any way is there a simple way to create custom styles?

One easiest way would be to export LibreOffice to XML fragments but I am not sure this can be done.

On the other hand, extracting XML fragments from LibreOffice generated file is very hard since there is a lot of XML overhead.

Thanks.

[dagwieers]

There are two sides to this:

• The ultimate goal is to allow to modify your styles through LibreOffice, and use the resulting ODT or OTT as the input for future files. This should work already, but may not be portable as long as we make modifications to the ODF backend.
• The way I am doing it now is by hand-editing the .styles files and copying pieces from other styles. In itself it's fairly easy to do because you can generate an .fodt, edit it by hand and opening it in LibreOffice to see what the effect is of your modification. If you like to learn how LibreOffice implements something, you can save your changes from LibreOffice and inspect what has been modified/changed (often much more than you wanted, but at least you can break it down yourself to the specifics you need).

[renard]

Ok nice thanks for the tips (although I was already doing stuff like that). I was just wondering if you have a magic trick because the whole style may be not functional if you miss one single declaration :-(.

Thanks again.

[dagwieers]

No magic :-(

It is true that it is prone to errors, mostly because of LibreOffice. If you find issues, it's best to report them to the LibreOffice team. One of the issues I have seen is that statements need to be in a certain order to work in LibreOffice (even though the standard does not expect this). I still need to make test-cases to show this problem as it does not seem to happen if I isolate the issue...