Hello, For me, character style and paragraph style should behave the same. I change my mind and think that character style should behave like the paragraph style : If you apply a style on something (text or paragraph) the style should overwrite the preview style and directs attributs on this something. If you apply a direct attribut on something the direct attribut should be merge with the preview style and direct attribut on this something.
But I don’t like very much the idea to force people to use style formatting… Regards Maxime de Roucy -- Maxime de Roucy Groupe LINAGORA - OSSA 80 rue Roque de Fillol 92800 PUTEAUX Tel. : 0 810 251 251 Le vendredi 30 mars 2012 à 07:53 +0200, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit : > Hi, > > Le 29/03/2012 22:09, Rafael Rocha Daud a écrit : > > > > This is intended behaviour. LibreOffice makes an assumption that when > > you apply a style you want the paragraph to look like that, so it > > overrides the direct formatting that had been applied to the whole > > paragraph. The assumption works otherwise when the direct formatting was > > affecting only a portion: you want the paragraph to look like the style, > > but you want that portion to retain it's direct formatting. > > > > Generally, direct formatting overrides styles, but they are not really > > meant to be used in conjunction, but you still can if you want to. The > > best thing to do in your specific case is to change the style itself so > > it applies your bold atribute (or you may create a new style, based on > > that one, to do that). The second best thing is to apply the direct > > formatting after applying the style (but remember you will have to do > > that for each paragraph you want that atribute in, and you will have to > > re-do it if you later change the paragraph style again. > > > > To me there are two questions : the one Maxime asked, ie the homogeneity > between paragraph style and character style use. The second one is > whether the tool should encourage to a correct use of the tool or not. > > Homogeneity > > I share Maxime's thoughts and, imo, both style types should apply the > same, iow, applying a style should replace the underlying formatting > (direct or style). > > Correct use > > Styles are the first reason to adopt LibreOffice. This should be highly > emphasized and promoted. As a trainer, I always bring questions back to > styles: "3 times upon 2, using a style solves the problem" (yes, 3 times > upon 2 ;). Hence, direct formatting should be discouraged. Better yet, > for instance, pressing the "B"old toolbutton should apply the correct > character style (bold emphasis by default) instead of setting the bold > property to the underlying characters. > > Side note: I feel a very important need for table styles in Writer. >
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