[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144920] Selecting text BOLD makes bold numbering as well

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144920

Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
This is a reasonable idea. And in fact, it is simple to achieve in ODF. The
number inherits the paragraph properties; so making the formatting using text
span properties, as opposed to paragraph properties, would do what is wanted.

However, current situation is caused by the need to make the UI reasonably
simple. This made all character properties handled by one single Character
Properties dialog, which tries to be smart, and applies the properties to both
spans and paragraphs, *depending on what is selected*. (And other parts of the
code also try to do similar smart things, like when they merge two adjacent
span formattings, and if they cover the whole paragraph, they convert that to
paragraph properties).

Doing otherwise would need to make a distinction between paragraph properties
and span properties in the UI, which is hidden currently; while this would
benefit most advanced users, that could make the UI hard to use by novice users
(or at least it is the perception).

Adding UX to the discussion.

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