https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153309
--- Comment #3 from Hartmut Schorrig <hartmut.schor...@vishia.de> --- The problem of direct formatting is, many people want to do it. If it is made more difficult, it will cause resentment among normal users. But professional users should know the advantage of indirect formatting, especially it is also familiar in such tools as Latex & co. But professional users (document managers in companies) often have to be convinced of the usefulness of indirect formatting. It means the problem is first time a problem of coaching, information. Not a problem of documentation and not a problem of LibreOffice. But this is precisely why there should be a mode that either prohibits direct formatting or makes it more difficult (with hints), consistently prohibiting it. This must be simple able to be switched on and off. (not with a password, that's nonsense or bullying). Then, if the users are informed about the concept of indirect formatting, incl. speaking about which styles, its meaning, also the styles should be concerted (!), then existing direct formatting parts should be able to higlight, (for ex. yellow background), to remove the direct formatting and think about (!) what to do instead (!). This is hard editing working on the text. Do it step by step, any day a part. For LibreOffice it means, this higlighting of direct formatted parts should be on and off switchable, should not disturb the normal work. The problem whether there are direct formatting parts in a text is not a problem of ban and passwords, it is a problem of able to evaluate where there are direct formatting parts. And a chief can say to the staff people, please remove it. It is a similar situation when there are meaningful style guides in a programming language (C/++), which are checked with a tool and must necessarily be fixed by the programmers in order to have a proper result. It means we need two things: a) Switch on/off possibity and support of direct formatting (for ex. ctrl-I for italic or the buttons for selecting colors) b) Switch on/off buttons for showing direct formatting parts. To clean it, the ctrl-m exists, that is proper. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
