[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 141439] FIND & REPLACE: Should be possible to specify both a search expression and a style

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141439

--- Comment #12 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #11)
> it's a very rare corner-case

On the contrary. Assuming one uses Paragraph and Character styles - which is
the preferred modus operandi for a word processor and certainly one we should
cater to no less than direct formatting - the specific formatting detail are a
minor concern. As the user, you set styles, nor formats; and that's what you
search for:

* Where does it say Encyclopaedia in a legal reference?
* Which subsection has "budget" in the title?
* Which URLs have "library" in their text?

and note that none of this can be expressed by the search capability we have
now.

It makes much less sense to search for:

* Where do I have "foo" in Liberation Mono?
* Where do I have "bar" in font size 18?

so I don't see how we could have the latter capability while foregoing the
former.

I wonder - although of course this is purely speculative - if some of the
meeting participants were not thinking mostly about documents where direct
formatting is used.

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