[libreoffice-users] styles in text boxes

I mentioned "irritations" in another post, so thought maybe I'll give 
one explicitly, as I've bumped into it (afresh) this week.

Why are text styles not available to use within text boxes?

I have a small project (I'm using Draw, but the problem also exists in 
Writer and presumably the other components) that involves documents with 
a number of text boxes with formatted text within. There's no problem 
manually making chunks of text within each box bold/italic/large/wierd 
font/whatever.

However, I'd like to use styles to ensure consistency, and this appears 
simply impossible - only one style, the box style, is available (in 
Draw, but not Writer!) and that affects all text(*) within the given 
box. In Draw, the stylist simply doesn't offer paragraph or character 
styles; in Writer, they're greyed out when inside a text box.

The maddening thing is that styles (automatically generated) are clearly 
used internally to handle the [manual] formatting -- AFAICS it's just 
the interface that doesn't offer the knobs and twiddlies needed.

Thoughts?




(*) other than text to which the user has applied manual character 
formatting.

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Mike Scott (unet2 <at> [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk)
Harlow Essex England

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