sw: add something about styles to README

Change-Id: I2f6e23a69fdb950bfa778252b2f10eaa371f0e1e
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/187756
Reviewed-by: Michael Stahl <michael.stahl@collabora.com>
Tested-by: Jenkins
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Michael Stahl
2025-07-11 21:12:47 +02:00
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@ -197,6 +197,31 @@ There are multiple model classes involved for fields:
Note that there is no UNO service to represent a list.
### Styles
Styles are either user-defined, or built-in.
User-defined styles simply have a user-defined name.
Built-in styles are identified by `RES_POOL*` constants in `inc/poolfmt.hxx`.
Each built-in style has 2 names:
* programmatic name (ProgName): this is defined in functions
`SwStyleNameMapper::GetTextProgNameArray()` etc, and *never* *ever* changes.
* translatable name (UIName): this is defined as `STR_POOL*` constants
for en-US in `sw/inc/strings.hrc` and is translated like any other
translatable string.
These strings have been changed and may change in future versions.
At the UNO API, and in ODF documents, only ProgNames are relevant.
In the UI, the UINames are used.
Unfortunately the core code also uses UIName, it would be better if it used
ProgName and the conversion would happen in UI code.
### Layout
The layout is a tree of `SwFrame` subclasses, the following relationships are