[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 133300] Please add the ability to search for Page Styles

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133300

--- Comment #18 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kendall from comment #16)
> > The feature allows searching for *text* defined in the Find
> > box, which has the attributes selected that simply differ from default. See
> > help [1] for details."
>
> ...  I don't think your view of the F&R panel
> matches how it works when searching for Paragraph Styles, which is a
> valuable and intuitive feature of Writer.

> > "Note also that page style is a setting of a paragraph (style), so searching
> > for "page style" would only make sense when searching for paragraphs ..."
>
> I don't think I understand the above statement, because it makes no sense to
> me. As far as I know, a Page Style applies to a page, not to a paragraph. 
> If someone did think that way though it could explain why someone included
> it in the Attributes... panel.  The statement implies that each paragraph in
> a page could have a different Page Style, which seems to me to lead to all
> sorts of confusion and complexity.

You might need to study how styles work in Writer. "Page" is not something
independent there; only content (text and the like) it first-class citizens,
and they define everything. Text divides to paragraphs, which have paragraph
style and DF; paragraphs consists of spans having character style and DF.
Paragraphs have a special property "insert break before with page style". It's
paragraph where you define which page style to use to put the content starting
from this paragraph. You can't have "each paragraph in a page to have a
different Page Style", because every paragraph having a different page style
starts a new page.

Anyway, that's offtopic (and you might like to read mode in documentation).
What's important is - since page style is property of a paragraph, then how to
organize useful search for it. Searching for *text string* is not good, because
that string could well be already on another page style (in case of page style
sequence defined on Organizer)...

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