[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 133300] Please add the ability to search for Page Styles

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133300

--- Comment #12 from Luke Kendall <luke.kendall at gmail.com> ---
1/
Some notes about the proposal
https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2019/11/05/proposal-to-conveniently-highlight-and-inspect-styles-in-libreoffice-writer/
(since I can't comment there):

It is perhaps more intuitive to position the objects in the styles inspector so
the highest priority properties are listed at the top. I understand that Direct
Formatting always overrides others, so it should appear on the top.

If Character Styles take precedence over Paragraph Styles, then likewise they
should appear vertically above them in the inspector.

I note the description also notes that in the example, Text Body inherits from
Default. I suggest it should be indented so it appears to be 'under' Default.
As it stands it appears to be at the same indent level which to me suggests
it's an equal level.

It looks like you're saving UI space might by only listing properties which
override a higher level property.  Nice.

I like the idea of showing properties greyed out when a higher priority 'style
influencer' has overridden it.

2/
Should the ability to add Find (and Replace?) Page Styles be added to the
proposed Style Inspector and/or Styles Highlighter?

My opinion is that because it's a search (and replace?) operation, it would be
natural to expect it to be accessed by the F&R panel.  Although it does feel
inconsistent that Paragraph Styles gets its own checkbox on the main F&R panel
but the only other Style (the Page Style) is 'hidden' under the Attributes...
button.

3/
Does the Styles Inspector (or Highlighter) proposal cover Outline & Numbering
styles?

That's an area that seems a bit confusing on the UI side at present. Some parts
of the Outline & Numbering style can be accessed from the "Outline & Numbering"
tab of the Format Paragraph panel.  Other parts can only be accessed via the
Numbering, Outline, and Customize tabs of the Bullets and Numbering panel.

It's also confusing to me that if you're defining a new Paragraph Style and you
want to define all the numbering style properties, you can't do it from the
Format Paragraph panel alone.  I think you ned to define as much as you can
there and then maybe select an example paragraph in that new style and open the
Bullets and Numbering panel?

4/
An oddity I stumbled over yesterday:
Previously you could define a font colour for a defined Character style, which
you can specify for a numbering style. I also discovered yesterday that
apparently that colour is now lower priority than the colour of the font you
define in the Paragraph Style.
I discovered this when I copied the body of one file into another, and the
chapter titles (I had defined as HeaderChar, Georgia, blue) appeared as
Georgia, black. To get them to appear blue I had to set the colour in the Font
Effect for the chapter title paragraph style.

Actually, this seems to contradict the discussion on styles in that URL, which
says Character Style has higher precedence. So maybe that's a new bug?

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