[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107865] UNO commands to modify style-level character and paragraph properties

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107865

--- Comment #9 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
I generally support the idea.

The most important factor that makes direct formatting that popular is thet
using it is *easy*. Thus, people who (unkowingly?) disregard the power of
styles, argue that it doesn't worth the effort (and later, when they have
created enough formatted content, they can't even evaluate what they miss now).

Reasoning like "styles are supposed to be static" concentrates on thoughtful
approach to styles, that values organized way of working on documents. That is
fine and all, but that is not the only approach in existence. And only making
tools convenient for that workflow inevitably leaves out other workflows,
forcing anyone with "chaotic" approach to use direct formatting, while everyone
around would look at that and say "you do that wrong! you need to use
styles!!!11".

So yes, *if* working with styles is *only* possible in that structured way, and
providing another way of working with styles would impact organized users in a
negative way, then yes, by no means provide easy styling tools to other
workflows. But is that so? Maybe we just didn't try enough?

I could envision a switch which would turn all existing direct formatting
commands into style modifying actions (by internally executing the new UNO
commands), so that there were no duplicating commands in UI; with some
easy-to-use tool to create new style (like possibility to edit the style name
in style boxes, with a tiny plus button, so that one could not enter into style
dialogs for that). At any rate, the idea offers possibilities IMO.

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