Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

Virgil Arrington wrote:
> On 3/25/2014 5:34 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:
> > How would you define a paragraph style to handle a dictionary entry
> > such as this:
> > > *canuscere*/v.t./ to know, to be familiar with.
> >
> > I see my formatting was lost on that example.  The headword
> > "canuscere" would be in 11 pt. boldface, while the rest of the line
> > would  be in 9 pt. normal, except that the "v.t." would be italicized.
> You've got two things going on here, as I see it. The *paragraph* style
> would determine the primary font and style of the paragraph (9 pt.
> normal) along with paragraph indents and any extra space above or below
> the paragraph. The boldface "canuscere" and italicized "/v.t./" would
> not be controlled by the paragraph style. They could either be
> controlled through direct character formatting, or with a character
> style, (defined as either 11-point boldface or 9-point italics). Then,
> you would apply the paragraph style to the whole paragraph and then the
> character style to the individual words to which they would apply.
>
> Quite honestly, I rarely use character styles, but in this case where
> you're changing two characteristics (9 points to 11 and normal weight to
> boldface), the character style would help ensure consistency throughout
> the document. With the italicized "/v.t./" I don't see any advantage to
> using a characters style as you're only changing one feature (normal to
> italics). Just highlight the text and hit <ctrl-i> and you're done.

Until, for example, you later decide word types should be blue as well 
as italic... If you've just hit ctrl+i all the way through to make them 
italic, you'd have to find all occurrences and change them all again. If 
you've defined and used a character style, you'd just change the style 
once and all the word types would turn blue.

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