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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