Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Character styles: "Default Paragraph Font" vs "No Character Style" vs "- None -"

Hi Michael,

I apologize for taking days to reply. As I noted to Harald, I had to get through a week's 
emergencies to be able to think about what you both had written.

On 2022-10-02 10:01, Michael H wrote:

> If you save your document as .fodt - Flat Opendocument, you can then open the document in a plain 
> text editor and see exactly what each style does.  That is you'll be able to see the underlying XML 
> spelled out.

Thanks. I did so. It was instructive, but what I learned most (in a couple hours of study) was to 
get a sense of how much time I might need to build tools to parse a Writer file (which I presume 
you have done already) -- and I just do not have the much time now, or even this year. (It would be 
rewarding to return to that someday.)

However, regarding the specific question of inheritance (from "-None-" or from "No Character 
Style"), your answer was particularly helpful:
> ...
> - ... "none" means you get the "create new style" dialogs with no parent style filled in.  This 
> means the character style definition will be more complete, and rely less on the parent style.

Yes, that I understood.

> - the "No Character Style" option while typing doesn't insert XML for a character style, but moves 
> the editing cursor after the already open Character style if you're at the end, or creates an end/open for 
> the style if there are more visible characters and leaves the cursor in between these tags.

If I select "No Character Style" as the parent of a Character style, do I not get the same effect as 
selecting "-None-"?

Thanks again,
John

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