[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 127754] New: Ability to apply multiple modifier-styles to the same content

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127754

            Bug ID: 127754
           Summary: Ability to apply multiple modifier-styles to the same
                    content
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.3.1.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: eyalroz at technion.ac.il

Often, a style can (and should) be thought of as a modification over an
underlying style. This is very obvious for character styles, e.g. :

* An "Emphasize" style makes the text bolder (or underlined).
* A "Quoted" character style may change the font, or italicize the text.
* An "Enlarged" style may increase the text size by 20% relatively.

Now, what if you want to emphasize part of a quotation?

Obviously, you want to apply "Quoted" to the whole quotation, and "Emphasize"
to a part of it - but you don't want the "Quoted" features to go away! ... yet
go away they do, right now. This forces you to have "Emphasized Quoted" or
"Enlarged Quoted" styles, which is artificial and annoying.

Actually, this may also apply to paragraph styles. For example, suppose we want
to lay out content in two boxes on a page, of different widths. In each of
these boxes we might have "Heading N" styles, "Text Body" and so on - which
might be different. We shouldn't have to duplicate all of these styles, but
rather factor out some basic "Box 1 Default" and  "Box 2 Default", and allow
the other styles be the _same_ modifications of that (unless we really do want
wackier differences).


I realize this would be a fundamental change, and that it should be considered
carefully, since it could potentially confuse novice users if it were to just
replace the current style system. But it is important and useful enough to
consider. It has the potential of simplifying and streamlining the work of many
more advanced users.

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