Draw styles in writer

[mthorn]

I’m trying to create and apply a style on a callout (the drawing widget) in writer (not draw!). Writer doesn’t seem to let me do this.

The steps I am taking:

1. draw a callout in my document. By default, its background is blue
2. create a new style named “mycallout”
3. modify the style and set the area background to yellow
4. click on the callout I inserted in step 1, and click the ‘mycallout’ style

What I would expect to happen: the callout’s background becomes yellow

What actually happens: the callout appears unchanged

Ditto for font changes, line width changes, etc. Am I doing something wrong?

Running on Ubuntu 13.10, Libreoffice 4.2.2.1 (installed via the ppa).

[oweng]

Writer only supports styles of type:

• Paragraph.
• Character.
• Frame.
• Page.
• List.

Draw only supports styles of type:

• Graphic.
• Presentation.

It is not possible to create a style for the line and area aspects of a drawn object in Writer. Thus, when you state:

create a new style named “mycallout”

… this is likely a paragraph style, affecting only the background of the text in the callout.