[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 135871] Highlighting no fill is not the same as no fill; there is still direct formatting present according to paragraph style

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135871

--- Comment #41 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
Your idea "let's "B" behave conditionally depending on where it is used" will
make behaviour of the result very confusing for Benjamin.

He has some text, where some parts are bold - because of DF on char level; some
parts bold from DF on paragraph level, some parts bold from styles - both
character and paragraph.

He uses the same "B" tool to make it not bold. Currently, this applies "no
bold" explicit attribute in all these cases. You suggest to make the result
conditional, making those places that were bold because of character-level DF
to simply loose "bold" attribute; so your suggestion would make new non-bold
parts being different - some having explicit "non-bold" attribute (where that
is above e.g. paragraph-level formatting), some no bold attribute at all.

Then user copies and pastes the text to new places - say, where paragraph
defines bold attribute. The texts - that user formatted the same way,
unpressing "B" - start behaving differently. This is unexpected, and *breaks
workflow of Benjamin*, who is the intended audience of DF feature. No matter
how would it benefit users like you, who cares about document structure (yes, I
mean it in broad sense: styles are just the way to express the structure in
LibreOffice; users first start to realize that their documents have structure,
then learn that the structure can be defined using styles).

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