Hi,
Le 29/03/2012 22:09, Rafael Rocha Daud a écrit :
This is intended behaviour. LibreOffice makes an assumption that when
you apply a style you want the paragraph to look like that, so it
overrides the direct formatting that had been applied to the whole
paragraph. The assumption works otherwise when the direct formatting was
affecting only a portion: you want the paragraph to look like the style,
but you want that portion to retain it's direct formatting.
Generally, direct formatting overrides styles, but they are not really
meant to be used in conjunction, but you still can if you want to. The
best thing to do in your specific case is to change the style itself so
it applies your bold atribute (or you may create a new style, based on
that one, to do that). The second best thing is to apply the direct
formatting after applying the style (but remember you will have to do
that for each paragraph you want that atribute in, and you will have to
re-do it if you later change the paragraph style again.
To me there are two questions : the one Maxime asked, ie the homogeneity
between paragraph style and character style use. The second one is
whether the tool should encourage to a correct use of the tool or not.
Homogeneity
I share Maxime's thoughts and, imo, both style types should apply the
same, iow, applying a style should replace the underlying formatting
(direct or style).
Correct use
Styles are the first reason to adopt LibreOffice. This should be highly
emphasized and promoted. As a trainer, I always bring questions back to
styles: "3 times upon 2, using a style solves the problem" (yes, 3 times
upon 2 ;). Hence, direct formatting should be discouraged. Better yet,
for instance, pressing the "B"old toolbutton should apply the correct
character style (bold emphasis by default) instead of setting the bold
property to the underlying characters.
Side note: I feel a very important need for table styles in Writer.
--
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux
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