shortcuts for styles

[Cyrille Berger Skott]

On Monday 04 Jun 2012, C. Boemann wrote:
> 1)  We could have some kind of automatic shortcut system where it would
> assign say Ctrl+F1 to the first level 1 outline style it finds. Multiple
> presses could switch between multiple such styles. The same with Ctrl+F1
> for level 2 etc.
> 
> 2) We could let the user decide on a per document basis. If we store some
> sane defaults in the templates it may not be so difficult to remember, but
> documents from other source would have a problem. The shortcuts would have
> to be saved in settings.xml
> 
> There are probably more problems and solution.
> 
> Please share your thoughts.

I would go for 2), that is how style shortcuts in indesign are working, and I 
would say it is very convenient when you have to do a lot of restyling.

I am not too found of 1), I don't think automatic stuff can be made well 
enough predictable, and when it comes to shortcuts, you want predictable, I 
also think that having to press a shortcut multiple time to switch between 
multiple style is cumbersome. As for the shortcuts being on a per-document 
basis, I think that the users who are the most likely to benefit from the 
features are going to be template users anyway, so they would define their 
shortcuts only once.

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Cyrille Berger Skott