[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 #13 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kendall from comment #11)

This is wrong. This is not converting a document into "using styles", it abuses
styles to create a new set of DF - named "Simplify<N>".

Styles are not just a random set of attributes with a name. They are designed
to introduce structure into documents. And that largely means using
*semantics*, not formatting. Two *different* styles may perfectly happen to
have the same set of attributes, still absolutely different semantical meaning.
E.g., you may want your quotes in a text to be highlighted the same way as
emphasis; yet, they have different meaning. DF cannot give you that semantical
meaning - you would e.g. simply make both emphasized text, and quoted text,
italicized and monospace. Then you would have hard time when you decide to make
quoted text (but not emphasized text) different size. Styles, when used
properly, give you that ability - and that they happen to have same formatting
at a given moment, does not break your ability to differentiate them, or
separately change their formatting at a later time.

Your "Simplify<N>" has absolutely nothing to do with the idea of using styles.
So it's just another direct property of texts, not creating any structure, but
implemented using style mechanism - still I repeat: they are *not* styles as
they designed to be.

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