[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 124959] The formatting of the target paragraph should remain intact upon pasting content from another paragraph

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124959

--- Comment #14 from Christian Lehmann <christianw_lehmann at arcor.de> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #13)
> (In reply to Christian Lehmann from comment #12)
> > Maybe we have a terminological problem here. For reasons not transparent to
> > me, recent editions of LO offer attributes like font size, italics and so on
> > in two submenus of the Format menu...
> 
> The main menu has Format > Text > Bold, Italic... which is direct formatting
> (it wont change across the document), with the context menu Character >
> Default, Emphasis... is character style (the appearance changes over the
> whole document if the style is modified). And the same is available at the
> main menu under Styles.

I cannot reproduce this. First, taking stock:
a) The main menu Format has (among others) two submenus called Text and
Character.
b) The context menu (available upon right-click in the document) only offers
the Character menu plus a selection of Character Styles as available from #c.
c) In the Styles panel, there are (among others) catalogs of paragraph and of
character styles. Upon modifying any of these, menus appear which offer
features of the options also available from the main Format menu.

Now ignoring #c, I observe that the submenu Text of #a offers the very same
features as the submenu Character. It is this what I considered redundant; the
more so as the same features are, again, available as clickable icons in the
Formatting Toolbar. One can also confuse the user by presenting the same
features under different names.

As for #b, it does the same service as the submenu Character of #a plus the
Character Styles list of #c. I observe no difference concerning the appearance
changing over the whole document. This is as it should be.

> 
> Paragraph styles do not override the target, character styles and direct
> formatting is taken into the target. The supposed way to format documents is
> to use paragraph styles for sections and to highlight only parts with
> character style.
> 
But please consider the case that I made in comment 12: I can assign a certain
Font property like, say, 11 pt, to an entire paragraph by defining and
assigning a paragraph style which has this feature. Or else - if I have only
one such paragraph in my document - I do not define such a style, but simply
mark the paragraph and assign it this font property. I see nothing wrong in
this latter procedure, nor do I see an alternate way of doing this which avoids
the inconsistency that I mentioned.

Sorry if this exchange boils down to removing a misunderstanding. But hopefully
it will lead to clearer menus and menu functions.

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