Re: Need confirmation about non-clearing of Character Styles

Caolán ,

thanks for the background and your atention to this problem

OK but ...its still very confusing for most users

they can clear all "direct formating" in the right place, the formating 
menu

they can clear "Paragraph formating" produced by a style using the 
Formating Toolbar option
why can they not clear Character formating produced by a style ?

+ there is no logic behind the clearing options
when using the formating tools in the "Formating Toolbar" we can use
 "Clear Formating" who clears the Paragraph format  who is actualy 
setting the slected text  to the "default" paragraph style
we can also do exactly the same by applying the  " Default Style" to the 
selected text

so i suppose we need to change  the Formating Toolbar "Styles dropdown"
- the existing option named "Clear Formating" has to name "Clear 
Paragraph Style Formating"
- a extra option named "Clear Character Style formating"  (who infact 
also will clear the Hyperlinks)

Greetz

Fernand
> On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 10:55 +0100, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
> > Sinds all or editors use LO 3.6.2 (before OO3.3)
> >
> > We have complains about the fact that parts of the text, who are
> > formated with a Character Style, can not been "cleared" to
> > no-formating,
> > not by "Clear Direct Formating (cntrl+M)"
> >
> > There is a dirty work-around by applying the "Default" character style
> >
> > Paragraph Styles can been cleared....
> > Is this intentional behavior or a regression open for a issue ?
> My understanding is
> a) that its intentional, see
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ooo-build/2010-February/000540.html
> and the commit
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6e690e0909459d46c53d17e7939891abea11e566
> b) that "paragraph styles" are not cleared, i.e. the text should remain
> using the original paragraph and character styles, but any additional
> properties applied on top of that is reset to the underlying paragraph
> and character styles properties.
>
> C.