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From: D.M. Procida on 7 Jun 2010 17:52
Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote:

> I'm using Pages 08. I can define a style and then apply it to some
> paragraph. And if the paragraph has had some style changes made to it
> (e.g. altering space-before), I can see that a change has been made in
> the Styles Drawer, where a disclosure triangle for the style is now red
> instead of black (assuming the selection point is in that paragraph).
>
> So far so good - but how do I see *what* the style change(s) are for
> that element?

I don't thonk you can.

> Pages doesn't seem to take the Word approach to styles, where you can
> build a style and set its characteristics. It seems to say "Style up
> some text and then use that when defining a style". I'm not sure that I
> think this is a better approach. Any comments?

I don't know the Word approach. The way Pages works is good enough for
me, but I don't know any better. I like it better than the way Nisus
Writer did (or does).

Daniele
From: SM on 7 Jun 2010 18:14
Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote:

> I'm using Pages 08. I can define a style and then apply it to some
> paragraph. And if the paragraph has had some style changes made to it
> (e.g. altering space-before), I can see that a change has been made in
> the Styles Drawer, where a disclosure triangle for the style is now red
> instead of black (assuming the selection point is in that paragraph).
>
> So far so good - but how do I see *what* the style change(s) are for
> that element?
>
> Pages doesn't seem to take the Word approach to styles, where you can
> build a style and set its characteristics. It seems to say "Style up
> some text and then use that when defining a style". I'm not sure that I
> think this is a better approach. Any comments?

There's an interesting post on the subject here:

<http://www.betalogue.com/2010/05/06/styles/>

Stuart
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