https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164550
--- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- What you're essentially proposing is starting to disrupt Writer's functioning as a direct-formatting editor. While this particular suggestion is limited just to keyboard shortcuts - one would then wonder why have buttons for italic or boldface rather than offer buttons for some useful character styles. I am against making such a change, as things currently stand. Also remember, that most character styles will not have such shortcuts; and I am worried that this focus on the two styles of Emphasis and Strong Emphasis is unjustified, relative to other character styles. Finally, "mechanically" replacing DF with application of a generic style is not necessarily valid in terms of semantics. The user may be applying DF to express something else than Emphasis or Strong Emphasis. Very often, what should be encouraged (albeit not by the application) is for the user to define paragraph and character styles specific to the content domain of the document - which may or may not involve italicization or use of boldface - and use those. Oh, by the way - in some languages (like Hebrew or Arabic), there is basically no such thing as "italics"; and what is actually often used is typographically-horrid slanting that makes no sense. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
