Dear Community!
Here is the first week of work. This is the first time, so I will be a bit more verbose.
With my mentor, our aim is to implement a better DOCX table style support.
Right now, the conversion into direct formatting is in a single function ApplyParagraphPropertiesFromTableStyles, where all the props that won (which were not overriden by para or run styles) are gathered. I was looking around in the codebase, where would be the best place to create the new para style(s), but this function seemed to be good for me, as the needed props are gathered here anyway.
I found the function StyleSheetTable::lcl_entry where the new styles are being created normally. This seem to be working, but this is private from the context of the named function.
So I still need to figure out, how to do this properly. If you have any idea, how to implement this, I would be happy to hear that!
Answered questions on how are docDefaults and table styles imported and exported.: All the docDefault run props are still there, but the para props deleted and migrated into "Normal" para style during DOCX round-trip. Exporting table styles, run properties seem to be deleted. Para properties are exported, except shading.
Writer is using table-templates to mimic table-styles right now, but came to the conclusion that mapping DOCX table styles to ODF table-templates would be very difficult, e.g style inheritance.
Eventually our main goal is to improve interoperability, and create a working UX for table styles too, what I already started. (Because Writer is lacking of it, and of course end-users don't care if it is implemented by templates or not.)
About UX, I made a minor fix, where changes in table-styles didn't propagate.:
Next week my goal is to work on the optimization, also start testing Ivan Alex's work (previous GSoC on implemeting real table styles). In parallel, I test the UX, because most likely it has some further bugs like above, and solve as many as I can.
If you have any questions, ideas, thoughts or suggestions, please share with me!
Regards,
Balázs Sántha, santhab
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