Re: [dev] Style Document

I will give that a go. Thank you.

Regards,
Malte.

> On 29 Aug 2021, at 23:02, Svante Schubert <svante.schubert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Malte,
>
> Am So., 29. Aug. 2021 um 10:09 Uhr schrieb Malte Stien <malte@stien.de>:
>
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I have progressed a little. Simple things appear to be simple. I have a
> > question with respect to styles, though.
> >
> > It appears that OdfTextDocument.newTextDocument(); creates a ODT document
> > with lots of styles. I would like to be a little more minimalistic and have
> > as few styles as possible; those default styles are rather confusing.
> The template styles the user are those, the user will expect by default in
> a LibreOffice (or OpenOffice).
> The following ODF documents are bundled in the JAR and one is being loaded
> as an empty document:
> https://github.com/tdf/odftoolkit/tree/master/odfdom/src/main/resources
> ^^FYI: the default Maven directory structure
> <https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html>
> defines that everything beyond "main" will become part of the deliverable.
>
> For instance, the JAR ODT empty template is being loaded here:
> https://github.com/tdf/odftoolkit/blob/master/odfdom/src/main/java/org/odftoolkit/odfdom/doc/OdfTextDocument.java#L88
>
>
>
> > I was thinking of one of the following:
> >
> > 1. The documentation for the above states "ODF text document based on a
> > default template". That implies that there might be other templates. Is
> > that the case? Where would I find them? How do I create a newTextDocument()
> > with one of those?
> You might overwrite your newTextDocument() or directly call
> OdfDocument.loadTemplate(...)  see
> https://github.com/tdf/odftoolkit/blob/8ba9c40ae27284739e54b4f18c26f4796b53a40c/odfdom/src/main/java/org/odftoolkit/odfdom/doc/OdfDocument.java#L202
>
>
> > 2. Could I create a styles.xml with, say, LibreOffice, or even an XML
> > editor and load that somehow? Or an ODT template created with LibreOffice?
> When we once created the ODF files for the JARs, I have saved an empty
> document in LibreOffice and afterwards opened the XML within the ZIP using
> JEDIT with the archive plugin to finetune the XML. You might want to use
> the XML plugin of JEdit for indent as well, but the indent is not ODF
> conform and might insert space within paragraphs.
>
> One of my future aimed fun projects is to create a Visual Studio Code
> extension for ODT, which when an ODT is being opened by VSC opens
> content.xml, styles.xml and meta.xml by default using ODFDOM (perhaps
> binary compiled using GraalVM to allow ease of use without Java). There the
> indent would be ODF conformant and we could do many nice tricks.
> If someone on the list had worked on a VSC extension, I would love to get
> in contact with you! :-)
>
> Until this project, the JUNIT way is the most elegant to me.
>
>
>
> > 3. Is there a class that represents the styles.xml? I have not found it,
> > yet. (Does not seem to be OdfStyle). Is there a way I can create a clean
> > one of those and then attach that to the OdfTextDocument somehow?
> >
> > The styles.xml file is represented in the DOM folder by
> https://github.com/tdf/odftoolkit/blob/8ba9c40ae27284739e54b4f18c26f4796b53a40c/odfdom/src/main/java/org/odftoolkit/odfdom/dom/OdfStylesDom.java
>
>
>
>
> > What is the cleverest way to do this?
> >
> > If your goal is to add your own styles, I would suggest working with
> LibreOffice to add/delete the template styles you do not desire.
> If there is more manual fine-tuning desired, you might want to use JEdit
> with the Archive extension to open, edit & save the XML from within the ODT
> document (ZIP).
>
>
> > Thank you,
> > Malte.
>
> Good luck! :-)
> Svante
>
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