[softwarelist] Re: Searching for Styles

In article <Q74IIOAyf7LGFwqK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling
<flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,

> In message <4ed907ad45ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ray Favre
> <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >Is there any hope of an OPro upgrade with Styles added to the main
> >Find options?

> I've long recognised search/replace on styles as a big shortcoming
> of OP. I didn't know that Impression could show you their scope -
> how does that work?

Just in case you are using Ovation-speak, I actually said their
'span' - not their 'scope'.

What I meant was that when you search for a Style in Impression with,
say:

{"Heading"}@       i.e. any text with the "Heading" Style

you are shown, by highlighting, the full extent of each occurrence of
the Style in the text as you step through - rather than (as per SRWE)
only showing the start position of the Style.

I find Impression's method incredibly useful for tidying up long
documents prior to release: picking up instances where careless Style
application has crept in e.g. a Style 'underneath' another which
needs to be re-applied 'on top'; Styles which inadvertently span over
subsequently-introduced page breaks; places where the Style is
actually applied twice to two contiguous sub-sections rather than one
application over the whole section.

Some of these may not be particularly worrisome for normal
Impression/OPro usage (although some are) but tidying up the document
in this way also plays an important part of getting a good HTML
output when using !meDDLe.

So my interest in Style searching is perhaps a bit keener.

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