Re: [libreoffice-design] Styles - thread on styles vs direct format

On 06/08/2025 12:05, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> We fully support DF ...

Actually, we don't fully support DF. DF is not supported at all on page 
sequences (i.e. DF over the page style) in Writer:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161078

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About (one of) the more general points:

I believe allowing for multiple modes of interaction of DF and named 
styles - like overwrite-apply, add-apply etc. - would probably make 
things more difficult to understand for most users. But we will 
eventually have  more flexibility than we have today, and is a bit 
closer to what you can get with CSS on HTML pages.

Example 1:

Properties set to values relative to an underlying style:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127702

that applies to DF just as well as to a character styles.

Today, if you have text in a style with font size 12pt, and you DF the 
font size of some word to 15pt, then change the style to some heading 
with 20pt - you'll keep your 15pt from the DF, even though now it's 
smaller rather than larger than the paragraph baseline. But if you were 
to DF your font size to be "125% of underlying", and you change the 
paragraph style - you would now have 25pt.

Example 2:

Application of multiple styles simultaneously:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149271

so you could possibly change just "some" of your style, not all of it, 
potentially reducing destructive interaction with DF.

Eyal


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